The Agriculture Minister Dr. J. Alexander Nuetah called Tuesday for a “fundamental shift” in global poverty reduction strategy, pressing governments, financial institutions, and the private sector to abandon short-term aid models in favor of long-term investments that create lasting economic opportunity. Speaking at the First Plenary Session of the Committee of the Global Partnership for…
Zhou Qunfei’s rise from poverty to woman behind smartphone screens around the world Zhou Qunfei, the founder of Lens Technology in China with Apple Inc.’s chief operating officer Jeff Williams in her touchscreen factory.PHOTO/Weibo / @Derrick_Zhang. By PATRICK MAYOYO [email protected] In the glittering halls of power where billionaires, presidents and technology titans gather, few stories…
Addis Ababa — Barbadian Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley has hailed Ethiopian Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) as a powerful symbol of African self-determination, declaring it a living proof that the continent can defeat energy poverty even when locked out of international financing. Speaking in a widely watched interview with a globally renowned South African…
Inger Andersen, Executive Director of UNEP speaking at the UNEA-7 meeting. PHOTO/UNEP. By SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT [email protected] The most comprehensive assessment of the global environment ever undertaken has found that investing in a stable climate, healthy nature and land, and a pollution-free planet can deliver trillions in additional global GDP, avoid millions of deaths and lift…
Malabo — new report from the World Bank Group finds that Equatorial Guinea stands at a decisive moment. The Equatorial Guinea Poverty and Equity Assessment, the first of its kind, finds that, in spite of the oil wealth that transformed this country into an upper-middle-income economy and one of the richest economies in Sub-Saharan Africa,…
More than 19 per cent of children worldwide live in extreme poverty, surviving on under $3 a day, according to a new UNICEF report. Nearly 90 per cent of those children are in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, but even in high-income countries, 23 per cent live with far less income than their peers. “It…
United States-based investor Dr. Farzam Kalambadi, President of Future Trends Investments Group (USA), has called on African nations to end the practice of exporting raw materials and instead build industries that add value locally — warning that the continent’s wealth will continue to enrich others if it fails to industrialise. Speaking to journalists soon after…
A wave of youth-led “Gen Z” protests is sweeping the world. A recurring slogan during the recent protests in Morocco was “We want hospitals, not stadiums”, reflecting how publicly funded services such as health and education are being sidelined. Electricity and water outages triggered the protests in Madagascar that toppled the government. Rooted in high…
Nearly 80 per cent of the world’s poor – 887 million people – live in regions that are exposed to extreme heat, flooding and other climate hazards, highlighting the urgent need for global action to address the issue. That’s according to a report released on Friday by the UN Development Programme (UNDP) and Oxford University…
Key findings Lived poverty and lack of access to water are strongly linked but not perfectly aligned. Clean, piped, and on-compound water access all decrease as lived poverty increases. However, a notable minority of respondents with no lived poverty do lack access to clean water (15%) and piped water (27%), and 20% must collect water…
