Africa boasts a number of huge megacities home to millions of people. Johannesburg in South Africa is known as Africa's richest city, home to two billionaires and 12,000 millionaires. Lagos ...

East Africa's Afar depression is one of the ... This "white gold" has long been an important source of income for the Afar people, who remain fiercely loyal to this extreme land despite summer ...

A new World Bank report shows that poverty in Africa may be lower than current estimates suggest and no systematic increase in inequality, given the available data Challenges remain substantial: more ...