Sub-saharan Africa Countries

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  1.5 Million Deaths A Year Linked To Air Pollution From Fires: Study

  Over 90 percent of deaths linked to air pollution from landscape fires were in low and middle-income countries, with nearly 40 percent in sub-Saharan Africa alone.

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  Crypto-Friendly African Nations Attract IMF Attention Amid Sector Expansion

  The IMF has advised all crypto-friendly African nations to implement tighter regulations around the digital assets sector. In its post, the IMF noted that regulating a highly volatile and decentralised system remains a challenge. As per the IMF, Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa have the highest number of crypto users in the region.

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  Parts of World to Get Dangerously Hot Even if Climate Change Goals Are Met: Study

  A new study suggests that even if we achieve the goal set up by the Paris Agreement, tropics and subtropics regions will experience dangerously sweltering temperatures during most days of the year by 2100. The countries in these regions include India, sub-Saharan Africa, and the Arabian Peninsula.

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  Startling Digital Divides In Distance Learning Emerge: UNESCO

  Disparities are particularly acute in low-income countries: in sub-Saharan Africa, 89 per cent of learners do not have access to household computers and 82% lack internet access, it said.

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  Child Marriage Costs Countries Billions In Lost Earnings, Says World Bank

  According to a new World Bank report, more than a third of girls in sub-Saharan Africa marry before their 18th birthday, which costs countries billions of dollars in lost earnings.

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  India, 15 Other Nations Make For 80 Per Cent Of World Malaria Cases: WHO

  India and 15 other countries in sub-Saharan Africa accounted for almost 80 per cent of the malaria cases reported globally last year, according to a WHO report which notes that a whopping 1.25 billion people in India were at the risk of contracting the mosquito-borne disease.

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  China Fast Catching As Global Economic Power, US At Top: Survey

  Across all of the countries surveyed in Latin America, as well as most in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, people tend to believe that the US is the top economy.

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  Is the End of AIDS in Sight? 10 Facts About HIV/AIDS Ahead of World AIDS Day

  Despite major advances, HIV/AIDS remains one of the world's most significant public health challenges, particularly in low and middle income countries, with new diagnoses every year and young women in sub-Saharan Africa seen as being particularly at risk.

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  HIV Spreads Faster Just Before Violent Conflict: Study

  The rate of new HIV infections rises significantly in the five years leading up to a conflict or bloodshed in a country, according to new study of the relationship between violent conflict and HIV incidence in 36 sub-Saharan Africa countries.

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  Libya Coastguard Rescues 346 Migrants

  The Libyan coastguard said it rescued 346 migrants on Tuesday, almost 100 of them women and children, crammed onto rubber boats and stranded off the country's coast.

• South Africa to Host 2016 AIDS Conference

  South Africa's port city of Durban will host the 21st International AIDS Conference in 2016, marking the forum's return to Africa after 16 years, organisers said on Friday. Gathering scientists, policymakers and grassroots workers, the biennial conference is the biggest single get-together on the global HIV/AIDS pandemic. The 20th conference in M...

• Africa is riskiest place to be born, report says

  More than 1 million babies die the day they are born every year, and the 14 countries with the highest rates of first-day deaths are all in Africa, according to a new report released on Tuesday.

• Tata Power sees no tangible domestic biz; eyes overseas avenues

  With no "tangible business opportunities" in India, the country's largest power producer Tata Power is actively pursuing overseas avenues especially in Africa, Middle East, Turkey and South East Asia.