Nigeria currently has a population of 237 million people and over 133 million Nigerians are living in this kind of poverty.

Liberia's new president, Joseph Boakai, was sworn into office on Monday following his narrow win in a November election. Boakai, 79, is the country's oldest sitting head of state and has pledged to ...

Vice President Kashim Shettima has stated that the northern region of Nigeria has endured poverty, corruption, and inadequate leadership for far too long, leading to the emergence of a new generation ...

I WROTE last week about the unending cycle of poverty, corruption and maleducation (PCM) which appears to be systematically perpetuated by the powers-that-be, primarily benefiting well-entrenched ...

NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - British Prime Minister David Cameron urged world leaders to adopt 10 “simple and inspiring” global goals to end extreme poverty in 15 years, including one that ...

Corruption is a strange industry. It can take only three people, one working full time and the other two as “sleeping” directors, a few months to make a profit of Sh500 million. To make the same ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Poverty and corruption are the biggest internal threats to Russia's security, President Dmitry Medvedev told Reuters, promising a major push to fight the twin scourges. Foreign ...

They are all countries rich in oil and gas. However, that is not the case for these countries where the paradox of immense wealth contrasts sharply with widespread poverty among the citizens. Several ...

June 8 -- Imagine selling your child to the highest bidder — and getting away with it. For many Romanian families, it's not a nightmarish fantasy, but a common strategy for survival. In a country ...

ONE just launched a new report with this shocking fact: at least one trillion dollars is siphoned out of poor countries EACH year, robbing governments of valuable resources that could be used to fund ...

2007-05-30 04:00:00 PDT Abuja, Nigeria-- Nigeria's new president, Umaru Yar'Adua, was sworn in Tuesday, pledging to be a humble "servant-leader" and to reform the electoral process to prevent future ...