Key Insights Many small-scale gold mines in Africa still use mercury. Once released, the mercury enters chemically dynamic environments.…
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The Opportunity of AI in Agriculture in SSA—and What It Requires Agriculture is central to life in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).…
The Royal Academy of Engineering has launched its 2027 Africa Prize for engineers and innovators in sub-Saharan Africa. The…
In this edition of Talking Urban Futures in Africa, urban researcher Heba Elhanafy speaks to CSIS Africa Program director Judd Devermont about charter cities in sub-Saharan Africa. They discuss the inevitable rise in charter cities due to population increase in the region, and Heba outlines three key considerations: (1) the necessity of public-private partnerships between…
Although rates of infection have not been as high as in other regions, the economic consequences of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic in Sub-Saharan Africa have been severe due to the combination of declining global demand and local efforts to contain the disease. In what is already a very vulnerable environment, Africans across the continent are…
UK aid to mobilise over £500 million of private sector investment, creating over 50,000 jobs in sub-Saharan Africa
The UK government has announced £5.5 million for research into transmission, new vaccines and treatments to tackle the mpox outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and neighbouring countries
In 1990, half of the people in sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, East Asia and the Pacific region were living in extreme poverty. Three decades later, an estimated 35 % of the population of sub-Saharan Africa lived in extreme poverty, compared to nine percent in South Asia and one percent in East Asia and the Pacific.…
In a grim assessment, the bank says that the region’s economy could shrink by as much as 5.1%
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