Afro-descendant and Indigenous women in Colombia’s rural areas are responding to land dispossession, conflict and ...

Africa south of the Sahara is producing more than six times as much food as it did in 1961. That’s a much bigger increase than that of the world as a whole, which has merely quadrupled agricultural ...

While sub-Saharan Africa’s resilience is encouraging, vulnerabilities have been building up and will continue to test the ...

A hard-won recovery in sub-Saharan Africa has been overtaken by recent events. The sudden shift in the global outlook has clouded the region’s short-term prospects and significantly complicated policy ...

Sub-Saharan Africa has shown significant growth in financial inclusion over the past decade, driven by mobile money account adoption as well as by efforts by governments and financial institutions to ...

Almost every country in the world has seen fertility rates decline over the past few decades, but one region's birth rates are still so high that it is expected to provide more than half the global ...

Rising trade tensions, multiplying conflicts and natural disasters – the institution urgently calls for de-escalation to avert the worst, emphasising that “the poorest countries will suffer the most”.

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, a multilateral development investment bank, has set its sights on a new ...

Sub-Saharan Africa has shown significant growth in financial inclusion over the past decade, much of it driven by mobile money account adoption. The region continues to work on promoting more overall ...

Some sub-Saharan African people with the autoimmune disease type 1 diabetes actually have a newly recognised, non-autoimmune form of it – which may require new treatment strategies. Gene-edited cells ...