Poverty
Outrage in Uganda after MPs get 25 mn euros to buy cars
Each of the 529 lawmakers were handed 200 million shillings (48,000 euros, $56,500) to get new vehicles at a time when Covid-19 cases are surging.
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'Train of Hope' brings healthcare to South Africa's poor
Despite being the most advanced economy on the continent, South Africa grapples with widespread poverty and high unemployment.
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Pandemic plunges 100 mn more workers into poverty: UN
The ILO's annual World Employment and Social Outlook report indicated that the planet would be 75 million jobs short at the end of this year compared to if the pandemic had not occurred.
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NGOs highlight state of hunger in SA during lockdown
The United Nations report said that close to 690 million people went hungry in 2019, 10 million more than the year before. Asia and Africa accounted for the majority of hungry people across the world.
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Former Robben Island prisoner: 'This is not the South Africa we fought for'
Sparks Mlilwana said it hurt to see so many South Africans still subjected to poverty and inequality and before he closed his eyes for the last time, he would like to see this change.
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New report lays bare problems with govt's free electricity access policy
The study interrogated how the situation had worsened over the past two decades, tracking large gaps between the funding provided and the number of households who benefited from it.
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Gangsterism, hunger & COVID-19: Cape Town communities’ triple threat to life
While the country grapples with COVID-19 that’s wreaked havoc on employment and the economy, residents in Elsies River and Tafelsig are dealing with more than one pandemic. #COVID19 #Gangsterism #CapeTown
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Gangsterism, hunger & COVID-19: Cape Town communities’ triple threat to life
While the country grapples with COVID-19 that’s wreaked havoc on employment and the economy, residents in Elsies River and Tafelsig are dealing with more than one pandemic.
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A crying shame: Rise in abandonment of babies during COVID-19
South Africa is seeing a rise in the number of babies and children either being abandoned or given up for adoption by parents struggling to survive the devastating impact of COVID-19. Eyewitness News spoke to Door of Hope, an NGO helping abandoned children, and a desperate mother who almost gave up her baby for adoption.
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Pandemic tips more people into extreme poverty in Nigeria's Lagos
Before the pandemic, nearly half of Nigeria's 200 million people were living on less than $1.90 a day, rivalling India for the world's highest number of poor.
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Warmer world linked to poor pregnancy results: study
Such outcomes - closely linked to poverty, especially in the tropics - will likely increase with global warming, especially during more frequent and intense heatwaves, they reported in BMJ, a medical journal.
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Current policies bring little change in SA's poverty & inequality levels - study
A study conducted by the NDA and the University of Johannesburg has found that policy documents intended to eradicate poverty were not in short supply.
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Pandemic could push 115 mn into extreme poverty in 2020: World Bank
And the bank's new report estimates that by 2021, 150 million could be living below the extreme poverty threshold of less than $1.90 a day.
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ANALYSIS: How social security could make life better in SA after COVID-19
Emergency relief measures were operational for six months and are due to end soon. But the impacts of COVID-19 will be felt long after.
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Poverty, joblessness drives wildlife poaching in South Africa: study
A report published and compiled after interviews with 73 convicted wildlife offenders in SA's jails concluded that 70% of them were forced into crime to make a living.
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YONELA DIKO: Urbanisation of poverty & lasting solutions to land invasion
No wealth is worth excluding millions of citizens from their natural right to land, writes Yonela Diko.
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Centre of Excellence in Food Security discusses COVID impact on the vulnerable
Panellists looked at safety nets and how social emergency relief measures performed in the face of the global pandemic.
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Mouse to go: Rodent kebabs fill empty stomachs in virus-hit Malawi
Malnutrition and food insecurity are perennial issues in the small, landlocked nation, where more than half of the population live below the poverty line.
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Virus means at least a 5-year hit to South Africa GDP: UN
The UNDP said GDP would decline by 7.9% this year due to the pandemic and "recover slowly through 2024", in a socio-economic impact assessment study released on Monday.
