More adults than ever in low- and middle-income countries now have bank or other financial accounts, leading to a rise in formal saving, according to the World Bank Group’s Global Findex 2025 report.

China is named as a top ally in sub-Saharan African and Latin American countries surveyed, but considered a top threat in the ...

Senegal's finance ministry said officials were recalculating the country's GDP using an updated base year, a move that could ...

Morocco has become the second most popular destination in Africa for irregular migrants from Sub-Saharan countries and ranks third for asylum applications, according to a new report by the African ...

With IPV2 now integrated into routine immunization, Malawi’s focus shifts to maintaining high coverage, reaching zero-dose ...

As expected, the new recommendations that the World Health Organization (WHO) issued for HIV and sexually transmitted ...

The World Bank’s Global Findex 2025 report found that the global account ownership rate stood at 79 per cent in 2024, compared with 51 per cent in 2011 and 74 per cent in 2021. In prepared remarks ...

Novo Nordisk today announced a collaboration with the American Society of Haematology (ASH) to support the Consortium on Newborn Screening in Africa (CONSA) Community Health Worker (CHW) Initiative.

After John Uwagboe moved to Scotland in 2008 he did not see another black man for several weeks. When at last he did, on the ...

Governments in Sub-Saharan Africa need to improve the delivery of essential services to promote inclusive, sustainable growth, despite a stable average Country Policy and Institutional Assessment ...

The First Amendment protects all our religious freedoms, hardly limited to the three great Abrahamic religions, but it ...

The World Bank has said that Nigeria and other affected countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, should strive to meet the demands of ...