Civil Government

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has announced a major $1.4 billion commitment over the next four years to help farmers across sub-Saharan Africa and Asia adapt to increasingly severe and unpredictable weather patterns.

Sub-Saharan Africa continues to defy gloomy global forecasts. The region’s economy is projected to expand by 3.8 percent in 2025, up from 3.5 percent in 2024, according to a new World Bank report. Yet behind the upbeat headline lies a harder truth: growth is not creating jobs fast enough to absorb the swelling ranks of young people entering the labor market.