Tag: Poverty and Development

Medan, Indonesia – Halimah Nasution used to feel as if she had it all. For years, she and her husband ...

A couple from Scotland is suing the UK government over its decision to abolish an allowance for at least 10 ...

Venezuela’s Foreign Ministry has accused Brazilian officials of making ‘interventionist, rude statements’.Venezuela has pulled its ambassador from Brazil in a ...

Commonwealth leaders have gathered in Samoa for the biennial Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) this week. This is the ...

Majia, Nigeria – Days after a fuel tanker explosion killed 170 mostly young people in Majia, a farming town in ...

Some 4.5 billion people worldwide are currently without adequate access to essential healthcare services, according to the World Health Organization ...

Index shows that 83.2 percent of the world’s poorest people live in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.More than one billion ...

Low-income countries still poorer than they were before the COVID-19 pandemic, report finds.The world’s 26 poorest countries are deeper in ...

Soreti*, an Ethiopian migrant domestic worker living in Lebanon, says she feels lucky to be alive. She was not home ...

Earlier this year, artillery fire crashed through U Khup Thang’s home in Paletwa, in western Myanmar’s Chin State, killing his ...

Mading, South Sudan – On a hot morning in July, Michael Alier grabbed his assault rifle and headed out on ...

Antimicrobial resistance, or AMR, is a rising global health concern – with doctors, scientists and public health experts sounding the ...

Lagos, Nigeria – Mujanatu Musa’s one-roomed apartment – built mainly of rusty iron sheets – cuts a sorry sight in ...

While the economy has stabilised many people are suffering as a result of austerity measures backed by the IMF.Sri Lankans ...

Manila, Philippines – With the exception of a few pieces of hanging laundry, the first two floors of 65-year-old Veronica ...

Johannesburg, South Africa – Sibongile Majavava sits outside her small tent shack at the Wembley stadium homeless shelter on the ...

Hondeklip Bay, South Africa – Before day breaks on a cloudy morning in Hondeklip Bay, a small fishing village in ...