The regional and economic makeup of Ghana reflects a divide in prosperity. Living standards in the rural north remain poorer than those in the urban south, and the roots of poverty in Ghana extend as far back as British colonial governance decades ago. Citing data from 2013 to 2017, a 2021 academic paper by a Ghanaian researcher found a link between education and reduced poverty levels within the nation. In exploring this connection between education and poverty reduction, The Borgen Project spo...

The 2025 African Vaccination Week (AVW), celebrated in April, was themed “Immunization For All is Humanly Possible.” The celebratory week began in 2010 as a World Health Organization (WHO) initiative to promote vaccination and its necessity within global health. The WHO found that in 2023 alone, vaccination saved 1.8 million lives in Africa.
The four goals of this year’s AVW were clear. The first was to reach un-immunized children through better initiatives. The second was to display the benefit...

According to 2018 data, 30.9% of Nigerians lived in conditions of extreme poverty. As modernization advances and access to smart technologies becomes more widely available, researchers observe how the positive correlation between the availability of high-speed internet tools and mobile banking is reducing poverty in Nigeria. With these positive research findings, the Nigerian government has acknowledged the necessity of internet availability in poverty reduction initiatives like its National Bro...