Urban scientists on Wednesday launched the first digital map of Africa's sprawl of slums to expose the true scale of urban poverty and bring services to millions of people.

Africa's geographic tragedy through the ages has been its isolation, which has been among the main causes of its poverty. Despite possessing a long coastline, Africa has relatively few natural ...

More information: Elizabeth Tennant et al, Microlevel structural poverty estimates for southern and eastern Africa, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2025). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2410350122 ...

The researchers used machine learning – the science of designing computer algorithms that learn from data – to extract information about poverty from high-resolution satellite imagery.

The poverty maps for Sierra Leone and Uganda, two Sub-Saharan African countries with extreme poverty, were presented in May at the Web Conference (ACM) in Texas, US.

This allowed me to map Africa’s water poverty situation, giving a good sense of how different this is across countries on the continent. My findings offer a transparent analysis for policymakers ...

Map of Africa. By Punch Editorial ... UNCTAD added that the COVID-19 pandemic worsened Africa’s poverty profile, revealing that 490 million people in Africa lived under the poverty line of $1.90 ...

The report, Leveling the Playing Field – Addressing Structural Inequalities to Accelerate Poverty Reduction in Africa, argues that broadening people’s access to jobs and public services represents one ...

Sub-Saharan Africa currently serves as the epicenter of global extreme poverty. The rate of extreme poverty in that region is about 35 percent, representing 60 percent of all extreme poverty ...

Adesina said the studies served as a vital road map to guide Africa towards the future where each African nation could achieve an annual GDP growth rate of seven to 10 per cent over the next 40 years.