Population trends continue to put a number of African nations at the top of countries seeing the biggest increases by 2050, according to “ The World Population Prospects 2019: Highlights” report released Monday by the United Nations.
Nigeria, Democratic Republic...
The most peaceful country in Africa is Mauritius, which is ranked 28th on the GPI, while South Sudan remains the least peaceful country in Africa and one of the least peaceful countries in the world, despite an improvement in...
South Sudan is the world's 3rd least peaceful country in the world and least peaceful country in the Africa, according to the 2019 edition of the Global Peace Index (GPI).
The report, released on Wednesday, "measures the state of peace...
Africa contributed seven out of ten countries bedeviled by displacement crisis classed as ‘most neglected’ according to a Norwegian Refugee Council, NRC, report released on Wednesday (June 5.)
The top four countries on the list were African:
1. Cameroon
2. The Democratic...
According to the just-released report Global Cannabis Report: 2019 Industry Outlook, Nigeria leads Africa in marijuana consumption followed by Ethiopia. The report by New Frontier Data, an analytics company specializing in the cannabis industry, places Nigeria in first place...
As of February 2019, the total population of the world exceeded 7.71 billion, and this number continued to grow each day, according to the 2019 State of the World Population Report (SWOP).
This year’s report focused on the need for...
Time Magazine has published its annual list of the world's most influential people - and six Africans made it on to the list.
They are, listed below:
Abiy Ahmed, Ethiopian prime minister
Rami Malek, Egyptian actor
Cyril Ramaphosa , South African president
Mohamed Salah,...
A new joint United Nations (UN) and European Union (EU) report has revealed the five African countries with the worst food crises in the world.
According to the Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC) , published on April 2, 2019,...
Data from the International Monetary Fund shows that tourism-rich Mauritius is the wealthiest country in Africa.
With a modest population, extending towards two million, tourism, textiles, sugar, and financial services are the mainstays of the East African country’s economy.
In recent...
South Sudan tops the list of Saddest nations in not just Africa followed by Central African Republic and Tanzania, according to the 7th World Happiness Report.
(Here's the latest report: Top 20 Happiest (and Saddest) Countries in Africa 2020)
The new...
