In this fact sheet, we will look at the history of hunger in Africa and current trends, review the unique characteristics and challenges of each of the five subregions, discuss why hunger is so persistent on the continent, and touch on some of the solutions that are making a difference.
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In our series of letters from African journalists, Sola Odunfa in Lagos writes that many elderly Nigerians are battling to survive after their pensions were stolen by corrupt officials. ...
The continent's future appears to be bright, but do growth figures reflect an improving quality of life? It is a story that is being told with increasing frequency. Against the backdrop of a prolonged slump that has brought financial paralysis to much of the Western world, experts have identif...
The MPs would receive a car allowance of around $58,000, for agreeing to the cut, the Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) said. On Tuesday, protesters in the capital, Nairobi, denounced MPs as "MPigs". MPs voted for a $120,000 annual salary in May, in defiance of the wishes of the SRC a...
Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi has said "all options are open" to deal with any threat to his country's water supply posed by an Ethiopian dam....
The initiative began two decades ago, with the best of intentions, after apartheid fell and southern Africa’s future brightened. Today that program, the Southern Africa Enterprise Development Fund, is in its death throes, apparently victimized by mismanagement, insider dealings and a lack of ov...
WUBA, Northern Ghana, May 30 2013 (IPS) - It is a school day but 13-year-old Musah Razark Adams, a Grade 5 primary school pupil in Wuba, northern Ghana, is standing in a rice field wielding a “koglung” – a sling shot to hit birds with....
Some 300,000 people have fled resurgent fighting in Sudan's Darfur region in the first five months of this year, the UN's top humanitarian official said. This was more than the number of people displaced there over the last two years put together, Valerie Amos said....
Heavily criticised by environmentalists for gutting out huge swathes of equatorial forests in southwestern Cameroon to set up a large-scale palm oil plantation, New York-based firm Herakles Farms has suspended the $350 million project. ...
Firms that shift profits to lower tax jurisdictions cost Africa $38bn (£25bn) a year, says a report produced by a panel he heads. "Africa loses twice as much money through these loopholes as it gets from donors," Mr Annan told the BBC....
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