The World Bank last week said about 61 per cent of Nigeria’s population — 139 million people — now live in poverty, rising from 40 per cent, or 81 million people, in 2019. In this interview with News ...

Vatican releases Pope Leo XIV's first major text criticizing the "bubble of luxury" wealthy people live in while poverty ...

Nearly 80 per cent of the world’s poor – 887 million people – live in regions that are exposed to extreme heat, flooding and ...

UN marks Oct. 17 as International Day for Eradication of Poverty, spotlighting crisis deepened by pandemic and global ...

Annually, on Oct. 17, the world marks the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, a day meant to spotlight the grip ...

This 2025 Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) report, for the first time, overlays data on climate hazards and ...

THE latest World Bank Nigeria country assessment paints a sobering picture of a country struggling to convert economic ...

In a move that will almost certainly rock an already precarious Government of National Unity, the DA has unveiled an ...

High heat and air pollution are the most widespread hazards, affecting 608 million and 577 million poor people respectively, ...

Nearly 80 percent of the world's poorest, or about 900 million people, are directly exposed to climate hazards exacerbated by ...

Dr Eunan O'Neill, director of public health for Cornwall, said child poverty affected "every aspect of a child's life", and ...

Writer's Poverty and Homelessness Action Week discussion centres on causes of disproportionate poverty and homelessness for ...