Africans
The population of Africa has grown rapidly over the past century and consequently shows a large youth bulge, further reinforced by a low life expectancy of below 50 years in some African countries. Total population as of 2020 is estimated at more than 1.341 billion, with a growth rate of more than 2.5% p.a. The total fertility rate (births per woman) for Sub-Saharan Africa is 4.7 as of 2018, the highest in the world according to the World Bank. The most populous African country is Nigeria with over 206 million inhabitants as of 2020 and a growth rate of 2.6% …
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World Bank Group · 23 October 2024 English
This edition of the Macro Poverty Outlooks periodical contains country-by-country forecasts and overviews for GDP, fiscal, debt and poverty indicators for the developing countries of Sub-Saharan Africa. Macroeconomic indicators such …
Ap- proximately 74.4 percent of rural Central Africans live below the national poverty line, compared …
World Bank Group · 23 October 2024 English
The Central African Republic (CAR) Climate Change and Development Report (CCDR) provides an indepth analysis of the country's vulnerability to climate change and its implications for sustainable development. The report …
erode social cohesion. Around 9 in 10 Central Africans are vulnerable to falling into poverty, meaning … change. Climate-related shocks affect Central Africans right across the welfare distribution. Yet certain … affecting about 6 in 10 Central Africans. Almost 3 in 10 Central Africans suffered climate-related shocks …
AU: African Union · 22 October 2024 English
We, representatives of the business and economic communities from Africa applaud the 13th African Private Sector Forum organized by the African Union Commission in collaboration with the Ministry of Commerce, …
States are encouraged to facilitate travel between Africans, and between Africa and the rest of the world …
PCNS: Policy Center for the New South · 21 October 2024 English
These two initiatives, when aligned with the context of the Summit of the Future held at the end of September 2024—with an agenda that includes discussions on pathways for UN …
Three recommendations could be formulated for Africans to enhance and accelerate the movement toward …
OXMS: Oxford Martin School · 18 October 2024
This white paper explores the critical issue of participation and representation of the Global AI Majority—countries outside the Global North—in the development and governance of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The document …
Building African Language Technologies, for Africans, by Africans’, Ars Electronica Festival 2023 - Who Owns …
ICIPE: African Insect Science for Food and Health · 18 October 2024 English
Started in 2015, the GBS series brings together Indeed, the ReSAKSS 2024 Annual Trends experts and stakeholders from all hemispheres and and Outlook Report (ATOR), titled ‘Advancing backgrounds, representing the …
the Africa Report as one of Top 50 Influential Africans: The Brains. y Rehema Gwokyalya (Uganda) PhD scholar …
FECCA: Federation of Ethnic Communities' Councils of Australia · 17 October 2024 English
This report, commissioned by the Australian Human Rights Commission, presents the findings from national consultations with multicultural communities across Australia. The consultations aimed to explore experiences of racism, particularly focusing …
languages and communities, but mistakenly named as ‘Africans’ many young people who were born in Australia …
16 October 2024 English
This initiative needs improvement as, despite its narrative, it triggers a brain-drain phenomenon that needs to be mitigated by a dual compensation: that due to the workers (doctors, engineers…) and …
escalating conflicts. It is estimated that millions of Africans may be displaced by climate-related factors in … According to the World Bank, over 12 million young Africans enter the labor market annually, but only 3 million …
FPRI: Foreign Policy Research Institute · 15 October 2024 English
Russian influence. The Russian Orthodox Church does not appear to be aiming for mass conversion of Africans and is likely to have more influence on leadership elites. Until more is known of its impact on … allegiance from Alexandria to Moscow. The Implications of this Move Many people, including a number of Africans, don’t think of Orthodox Christianity in missionary terms. Generally they view Orthodoxy in ethnic …
conversion of Africans and is likely to have more in�uence on leadership elites. Until more is Africans and is … of this Move Many people, including a number of Africans, don’t think of Orthodox Christianity in missionary … anti-Western positions that are shared by a number of Africans, Christian or not, such as opposition to same … Patriarch of Alexandria and claims that it deprives Africans of spiritual guidance, the Russian Orthodox Church … well. It has also aided Moscow’s recruitment of Africans for paramilitary service in the war against Ukraine …
Amnesty International · 15 October 2024 English
against ethnic minorities and migrants, Roma and Africans and people of African descent. The CERD was also …