Despite the continent’s vast natural resources, many African countries remain among the poorest in the world. According to the World Bank, 22 of the 26 low-income economies globally are in Africa.

The United States spent decades responding to conflicts and disease in Africa. The continent is now expected to be the ...

Eighteen of the poorest countries by GDP per capita are in Africa. That is not surprising given the famine and war that have racked the continent for the better part of the last four decades.

“It remains the poorest continent and yet has so much more to offer the rest of the world, both in terms of its people and the food that grows there. “I totally believe that the best way to do this is ...

Can Jared Diamond's theories explain how a continent so rich in natural resources, could have ended up the poorest continent on earth? Guns Germs and Steel triumph again...? Jared's journey begins ...

Over the next four years, Beaubien worked as a foreign correspondent in sub-Saharan Africa, visiting 27 countries on the continent. His reporting ranged from poverty on the world's poorest ...

It is a time of great opportunity in Africa. Apartheid has been defeated and the independence era is 30-40 years old, but the scars of history are deep and the hurdles facing the continent are ...

Over the next four years, Beaubien worked as a foreign correspondent in sub-Saharan Africa, visiting 27 countries on the continent. His reporting ranged from poverty on the world's poorest ...