In order to improve ties between sub-Saharan Africa and Colombia’s Black minority in particular, the president reportedly is set to appoint Afrocolombian ambassadors to Ghana, Kenya and South Africa.

A hard-won recovery in sub-Saharan Africa has been overtaken by recent events. The sudden shift in the global outlook has clouded the region’s short-term prospects and made policy even more ...

Stagnating incomes in sub-Saharan Africa’s resource-intensive economies necessitate more effective fiscal management and broad-based structural reforms. Sub-Saharan Africa is home to nine of the world ...

Sub-Saharan Africa had 489 million unique mobile subscribers in 2023 (43% of the population), a number expected to jump to 692 million by 2030 (50% of the population). Mobile Money.

The number of people in sub-Saharan Africa becoming newly infected with HIV has plummeted from 2.1 million in 1993 to 640,000 within 30 years — a 70 percent drop.

Sub-Saharan Africa, which receives more than a quarter of that U.S. foreign assistance, has been especially affected by these cuts. Ari Daniel reports that communities across the continent are ...

Standard Chartered said on Friday it has reached an agreement to sell its subsidiaries in five sub-Saharan African countries to Nigeria's Access Bank, putting into motion a plan announced last ...

Sub-Saharan Africa is home to an enormous number of religious adherents – within which there is extraordinary diversity in religious expression. Iconic buildings serving a religious purpose are ...

$445 Million Plan Revived for Sub-Saharan Africa's Tallest Tower. Published May 21, 2025 at 11:04 AM EDT. By . Theo Burman is a Newsweek Live News Reporter based in London, U.K.