The lanky young man in skinny joggers grew up in the town of Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, but after completing school in ...

This table tracks the rural population in 53 African countries using available data from 1960 - 2023. A major indicator of impactful development is seen when rural communities begin to feel the ...

Indonesian villages have been rated among the most attractive local areas in the world, offering nature, authentic cultures and local life. Indonesia is set to develop and promote rural tourism in its ...

For several weeks now, a lorry has been leaving Jumia’s warehouses in Nairobi two or three times a week to make a 12-hour loop around Mount Kenya. The aim is to deliver locally unobtainable products ...

Egypt, Morocco and a few other African countries have effectively reached near-universal electricity access through sustained ...

Data from 57 studies including 10,907 patients across 36 towns/cities were included in our analysis. Proximity to rural areas was associated with a higher frequency of HBV-associated HCC in assessment ...

Roads are the lifelines of Africa's economies, connecting people, goods, and services across vast distances. They move produce from farms to markets, workers to factories, students to schools, and ...

The Federal Government plans to bankroll the construction of 3,700 telecom towers in rural areas, a move aimed at connecting millions of citizens who currently lack reliable mobile and internet ...

In a small, rural village in Zambia, Ruth earns an income by collecting fresh vegetables from local community gardens and bringing them to market. Tending and collecting the vegetables by foot is time ...

This blog post was written by Mpho MacChambers, ONE Strong Girl Ambassador. There is an old African proverb that says ‘it takes a village to raise a child’. In my experience, it takes a village to ...

A new collection of essays, including a short one by Mamdani himself, seeks to address the wide-ranging issues which his work raised but did exhaust. On the Subject of Citizenship: Late Colonialism in ...