A South Sudanese exile has become the go-to IT expert for his neighbours at a refugee settlement in northern Uganda

Untrained ‘backyard’ midwives fill a gap in Zimbabwe’s health system

Petrol smuggling has had a negative impact on Benin’s relations with its giant neighbour Nigeria

Neglect of how the urban poor live, is making Covid-19 responses dangerous in many low-income countries

Zimbabwe’s urban population is growing fast, and many of the new arrivals end up in slums with disastrous living conditions

In Mozambique, for every person working in the formal sector, there are ten in the informal sector

Facing considerable risks, youngsters in developing countries use digital technology for recreational purposes

To escape poverty, a young refugee started to sell self-made pottery in Uganda and succeeded

Twiga is improving livelihoods by linking smallholder banana growers to informal urban retailers in Nairobi

Nigerian women are forced into prostitution in Ghana