Experts agree that the private sector must play a role in African urbanization, saying African states are too fiscally constrained to fill the investment gap themselves. Rendeavour, a private company with a multibillion-dollar balance sheet, has deep enough pockets to make a difference.

Reliance on Russia’s military offerings has become increasingly prevalent in parts of Africa, amid an aggressive push by Moscow to lessen Western influence on the continent.

Dr. Joseph Lubega calls sickle cell disease “probably the saddest story of a health problem that you could imagine.” He and his colleagues at Texas Children’s Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine are working to change that narrative.

The World Bank and African Development Bank (AfDB) have announced terms for African countries to secure $40bn in power finance under the Mission 300 programme. In 2019, electricity access in sub-Saharan Africa varied from 1% in South Sudan to 94% in South Africa,

The European Union (EU) Commission has allocated €510 million to Nigeria and other countries in sub-Saharan Africa.

At that point Africa will be home to approximately 2.5bn people, or around a quarter of humanity. And unless Africa finds a way to boost its sagging productivity, it will continue to fall further behind the rest of the world,

Sub-Saharan African countries should be given more financial and technical support to cope with climate change disasters, so that they can continue to spend funds on economic development.

The commission stated that the EU has budgeted €1.9 billion for humanitarian assistance to vulnerable populations worldwide.

Jimmy Carter was the first U.S. president to make a state visit to sub-Saharan Africa. The African continent, a booming region with a population rivaling China’s that is set to double by 2050, is where Carter's legacy remains most evident.

Sub-Saharan Africa’s economic growth is expected to improve to an average 4.2% this year from an estimated 3.8% in 2024, boosted by investments in energy and infrastructure and an expanded services sector,

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Jimmy Carter was the first U.S. president to make a state visit to sub-Saharan Africa. He once called helping with Zimbabwe’s transition from white rule to independence “our greatest single success.” And when he died at 100 ...

The U.S. Embassy in collaboration with the Ghana Atomic Energy Commission (GAEC) has commissioned Sub-Saharan Africa’s first NuScale