Burundi faces serious climate and environmental challenges. The biggest is the country's overdependence on the use of biomass (firewood). The second is outdated agricultural practices that have led to ...

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 ...

Off-grid solar solutions have perhaps the greatest potential to deliver electricity access to those living in so-called energy poverty ... represents a six-fold increase in the investment the ...

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 ...

Africa is experiencing a troubling surge in severe lived poverty, reversing hard-won gains from the past two decades, according to a new report. The report, "Decade of Destitution? Severe Lived ...

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 ...

Colombian women chose fish farms over coca, Africa made income gains, and solar power is surging in Pakistan.

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 ...

Alvaro Lario, IFAD President spoke of finding solutions in complex and uncertain global alliances, priorities and development ...

In Burundi, a country where only ... about how and where to allocate subsidy to increase energy access for lower-income households and businesses. These are just some of the steps that could take ...

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 ...