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List of 10 poorest countries in Africa based on income, GDP per capita

The AfDB revised Africa’s economic growth forecast downward in its May 2025 report, cutting the 2025 and 2026 projections to 3.9% and 4.0%, respectively Economist Daniel Kathali explained that while ...
Time

Empowered Women Can Transform the World’s Poorest Communities

SHOFCO CEO Kennedy Odede engages with a SWEP member at the inauguration of the Bondo SUN Community Centre in Siaya County, Kenya. I grew up in Kenya’s Kibera slum, the largest in Africa. My mom never ...
The Conversation

Africa’s cities are growing chaotically fast, but there’s still time to get things right – insights from experts

Research associate at African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town Cities are vital engines of economic growth, innovation and social progress. They shape the futures of nations and the lives of ...

Run on numbers: How South Africa' s decline affects its poorest citizens

South Africa's once-proud infrastructure is crumbling under the weight of mismanagement, corruption and political ...
The Economist

The world’s poorest countries have experienced a brutal decade

There are now a billion fewer people subsisting on less than $2.15 a day than in 2000. Each year since the turn of the millennium, a cast of aid workers, bureaucrats and philanthropists, who often ...