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…
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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
Spotify listening data shows football podcast consumption isaccelerating across Sub-Saharan Africa, with several markets postingstrong increases in June compared with the January–May average
Report : Hope for better jobs eclipses religious ideology as main driver of recruitment to violent extremist groups in Sub-Saharan Africa — SONNA New York, 7 February 2023— Hope of finding work is the leading factor driving people to join fast-growing violent extremist groups in Sub-Saharan Africa, according to a new report launched today by…
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.…
Sub-Saharan Africa is home to some of the world’s most essential critical minerals from cobalt and manganese to graphite and platinum, powering the global clean energy transition
In a grim assessment, the bank says that the region’s economy could shrink by as much as 5.1%
Schneider Electric SE has named Steven Santini as Vice President of Secure Power for Sub-Saharan Africa, tapping a South Africa-born executive with more than 15 years in IT infrastructure to spearhead the company’s digital resilience strategy across a region where demand for reliable power and data capacity is surging
