Poverty Bound

Mauritania has made progress in battling slavery but still has its work cut out to abolish the practice, the UN envoy on the issue said Friday. Slavery has been officially banned since 1981 and classified as a crime  against humanity in the Sahel country, but...

By Patrick Markey and Joel Olatunde Agoi From airlines in Nigeria to shoppers in Malawi, Africans are feeling the impact of the Ukraine crisis in wrenching increases in the price of fuel, grain and fertiliser. Global oil prices scaled decade-long highs of more than...

By Bassem Aboualabass Soaring bread prices sparked by Russia's invasion of Ukraine have bitten into the purchasing power of consumers in Egypt, a leading importer of wheat from the former Soviet states. For the first time since he took office, President Abdel Fattah...

Thousands of Tunisian opposition supporters demonstrated Sunday in the capital against President Kais Saied's power grab and the economic crisis in the North African country. "Poverty has increased", and "Famine is at our doorsteps", they chanted as at least 2,000...