While sub-Saharan Africa’s resilience is encouraging, vulnerabilities have been building up and will continue to test the region. Many governments now face a challenging mix of fiscal, monetary, 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 ...

Persistent global inflation and tighter monetary policies have led to higher borrowing costs for sub-Saharan African countries and have placed greater pressure on exchange rates. Indeed, no country ...

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”.

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 ...

Access to, use and control over land and natural resources are central to women’s livelihoods, wellbeing, cultural identity ...

The region has growing institutional momentum and retail adoption, as the countries face economic challenges that could provide fertile ground for Web3. Sub-Saharan Africa is the third-fastest growing ...