Burundi faces serious climate and environmental challenges. The biggest is the country's overdependence on the use of biomass ...

A landlocked country on the north-eastern shores of Lake Tanganyika, Burundi is extremely poor, with 76% of the population living below the poverty ... government could increase voluntary ...

Five doctors in Burundi have been imprisoned by the intelligence service after quitting their jobs over the failure of salary negotiations, union and government sources told AFP on Tuesday.The doctors ...

Afrobarometer surveys in the 2000s and 2010s tracked the same downward trends in poverty rates in Africa as measured by the proportions of people who tell interviewers that they go without a ...

So, with population growth outpacing economic expansion, is it inevitable that GDP per capita will struggle to rise, making poverty reduction ... migration from Africa to wealthier economies, and ...

Burundi’s entry into the East African Community’s One Network Area ... from 3,667 minutes in the three months to June 2024, an increase of about 692 percent. Burundians in Kenya also slightly ...

Their possible deployments intersect with geopolitical tensions in the Horn of Africa – including over access to water and the Red Sea. In contrast, relatively little has been said about Burundi’s ...

Morocco is one of the few countries that made significant strides in improving citizen access to basic necessities, according to a recent poll conducted by the pan-African network Afrobarometer poll, ...

Key highlights of the amendments - General minimum wage increase The NMW rises to R28.79 per hour ... which are critical for improving South Africa’s long-term workforce productivity. Employers who ...

International Air Transport Association (IATA), the international clearing house for over 3300 airlines globally has released data for November 2024 global passenger demand with African airlines ...

However, such a “scenario” is not good enough to improve South Africa’s socioeconomic indicators — unemployment and poverty. According to the World Bank, a 1% increase in GDP growth is ...

The African Union heads of state and government noted that Africa’s population is projected to reach 2.5 billion people by 2050, while the global population is expected to reach 9.8 billion people.