As the world celebrated Mother’s Day last Sunday, the National President of the Local Government Service Association of Physical Planners (LoGSAPP), Gifty Nyarko, has expressed concern over what she ...

Women emerge as a crucial, independent voting bloc across four states, split by distinct regional, age, and class divides.

A women rights advocate and aspirant for the Ilorin West/Asa federal constituency under the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mopelola Abdulmalik Bashir, has pledged to prioritise rural development, ...

Asniah recalls nights lying in darkness listening to cicadas and the passing hum of outboard motors after her family moved to ...

As South Africa marks 30 years of democracy, millions in rural communities still face poverty, weak infrastructure, land insecurity, and limited economic opportunity. Writing after the National Rural ...

Aggressive driver behaviour, speeding, poor cycling infrastructure, and the increased size of vehicles are deterring women ...

INDIGENOUS Peoples (IPs) topped the list of the country’s most impoverished sectors in 2023, even as the national poverty ...

In July 2024, the Jigawa State Government signed a N6 billion Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Bank of Industry ...

Members of the United Nations Working Group on the Rights of Peasants have raised concerns over worsening conditions facing ...

Inside a police station in rural Ernakulam, officers were recently replaying CCTV visuals of a routine chain-snatching case that had taken place nearby. The sus ...

Bangladesh’s tiger widows endure stigma, poverty, and neglect while bearing conservation’s hidden human costs alone for ...

An Indian state's initiative to establish women-run community libraries is giving rural students—especially girls—a safe space to study and access career guidance.