COVID-19 crisis makes electricity too costly for millions in Africa, Asia
Kuala Lumpur, MalaysiaThomson Reuters Foundation The economic toll from the COVID-19 pandemic has left more than 25 million people in Africa and Asia unable to afford electricity, threatening a global goal to provide power to everyone by 2030, international agencies warned on Monday. Two-thirds of those affected were in sub-Saharan Africa, deepening disparities in the […]
Conflict, climate change choke efforts to cure poverty, inequality – UN
Thomson Reuters Foundation Climate change and conflict are forcing growing numbers of people to go hungry, flee their homes and lose critical access to water, the United Nations said on Wednesday in a look at progress in its global development goals. The number of hungry people has risen for the first time in a decade, […]