One of the biggest challenges in providing relief to people living in poverty is locating them. The availability of accurate and reliable information on the location of impoverished zones is ...

Drawing on the latest evidence, a new World Bank report, Accelerating Poverty Reduction in Africa, revisits the challenges and opportunities to tackle poverty in the region Despite significant ...

The Cornell team's new "structural poverty" estimates seek to address that gap, translating abundant Earth observations into more actionable terms for policymakers. Focused on four southern and ...

DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Urban scientists on Wednesday launched the first digital map of Africa's sprawl of slums to expose the true scale of urban poverty and bring services to millions ...

The images above are maps of Senegal. The lighter the color, the more poverty the region suffers. Using cellphone data records, University at Buffalo researchers were able to drill down from 14 ...

The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) presents a major opportunity for African countries to bring 30 million people out of extreme poverty and to raise the incomes of 68 million others who ...

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Outside a foreign currency exchange in Zimbabwe's capital, hordes of people desperate for U.S. dollars are pushed up against each other. "That's it, keep it tight," some shout, ...

Editor’s Note: Tony Blair was prime minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007. The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own. It is now widely recognized that in Africa, the Covid-19 ...

AI used to tackle poverty, translate languages African data seen vital to fighting racial bias More funding, wider digital access needed, say developers DURBAN, Feb 16 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - ...

When Ivorian artist O’Plerou Denis Grebet was looking for free stock images of Africa for a project, he only came across negative images of disease and poverty. “I noticed that media and most articles ...

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