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Cameroon after Paul Biya: poverty, uncertainty and a precarious succession battle

Cameroon’s President Paul Biya is 91 years old. He is Africa’s oldest head of state and only one has served longer: President Teodoro Obiang Nguema of neighbouring Equatorial Guinea, who is 82 years old.

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People Are Sharing Experiences Of Growing Up Poor That Rich People Don’t Know About (53 Answers)

Many describe how financial hardship shaped their views on money, security, and even relationships. The post People Are Sharing Experiences Of Growing Up Poor That Rich People Don’t Know About (53 Answers) first appeared on Bored Panda.

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Labour gave us Sure Start to tackle child poverty. Now it should hike tax to keep it

The Tories put British children’s prospects of escaping a poor background into reverse. This is Labour’s chance to fix that, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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Poverty in Lagos isn’t just about money – here’s why

Lagos is Nigeria’s economic powerhouse, but it has some of the worst slums in the country.

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Can Harris’s proposed ‘at-home Medicare’ end the dreaded ‘spend down’ of senior assets?

Currently, many states require people to divest themselves of assets to poverty levels to qualify for aid

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Ministers urged to increase basic rate of UK statutory sick pay

Campaigners call on government to go further than current plans to prevent people off work slipping into poverty

The Guardian - UK

Degrowth needs to solve its image problem for the sake of the planet

We need to deal with the climate effects of global capitalism the way we deal with inflation – by applying the brakes

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Pumping the unemployed with weight-loss drugs echoes Victorian attitudes to the poor

Shifting blame to the victims of economic policy is an old trick by politicians. Now they’re using obesity to tackle joblessness

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‘We’ll never forget’: Town grieves after deadly Nigeria fuel tanker blast

Survivors and relatives try to find peace after 170 mostly young people died after a tanker exploded in Jigawa State.

Al Jazeera

More than 1 billion people live in acute poverty. Half are children and many in conflict zones

A new report says more than 1 billion people in the world live in acute poverty, over half are children and nearly 40% live in conflict-torn and fragile countries

The Independent UK

Cloud mind uploading? Anthropic CEO envisions AGI-driven utopian world — but it'll vastly demand trillions in computing power and data centers as earlier predicted by OpenAI's Sam Altman

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei recently shared that AGI could alleviate poverty and expedite medical breakthroughs from 100 years to a mere decade, but it demands trillions of dollars in computing power and data centers.

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UN report says 1.1 billion people living in acute poverty

Index shows that 83.2 percent of the world’s poorest people live in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.

Al Jazeera

UN Report Says 1.1 Billion People In Acute Poverty

More than one billion people are living in acute poverty across the globe, a UN Development Program report said Thursday, with children accounting for over half of those affected.

International Business Times

UN report warns 1.1 billion people are living in acute poverty

More than one billion people are living in acute poverty across the globe, a UN Development Program report said Thursday, with children accounting for over half of those affected.

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Majority of parents not deterred by fines for term-time family holidays – survey

The Government should review the marketing and pricing of ‘rip-off’ family holidays, according to Parentkind charity.

Evening Standard

More than 120,000 London pensioners at risk of losing winter fuel payment despite eligibility

Age UK London is urging pensioners to check whether they’re eligible for pension credit, which would allow them to keep their winter fuel payment

The Guardian - UK

Wars, debt, climate crisis and Covid have halted anti-poverty fight – World Bank

Setbacks mean UN goal of ending extreme poverty by 2030 is impossible to hit, report finds

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9 million Mozambicans live below the poverty line – what’s wrong with the national budget and how to fix it

Mozambique ranks in the bottom 20 of the human development index. This measures a country’s progress based on key dimensions such as a long and healthy life and a decent standard of living. Nearly two-thirds of Mozambicans – 18.9 million people – live below the national poverty line of US$0.70-a-day.

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South Africa’s unity government won’t dent poverty and inequality if it follows the same old policies – sociologist

A recent poll by the Social Research Foundation, a think thank, found that 60% of South Africans thought the government of national unity was working well. It also reported that support for the unity government’s anchor political parties, the African National Congress (ANC) and the Democratic Alliance (DA), had risen…

The National (Scotland)

John Swinney tells investment summit that growth will help tackle child poverty

JOHN Swinney has said growing investment in Scotland would help to tackle child poverty as he attended a summit in London.

Newcastle Herald

Vinnies seeing more and more homeless people among those living in poverty

Hunter help-seekers continue to rise during Anti-Poverty Week.

The Guardian - UK

Give people in poverty a say on policymaking

Letter: Coinciding with Challenge Poverty Week, a call for the government to listen to people with lived experience of poverty when drawing up plans to tackle the crisis

Salon

More families go in debt to pay for food

The spike in the cost of groceries can cause low-income, food-insecure folks to get into a debt cycle

The Conversation

Despite progress on poverty, Mexico’s first female president inherits a shaky economy

Mexico’s first female president, leftwing academic and climate scientist Claudia Sheinbaum, has set out her agenda. She pledged to maintain the social policies of her mentor and predecessor, the widely popular former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador (commonly known by his initials, AMLO).

Salon

Why budgeting isn't a fix for poverty

It’s cruel to tell someone to budget their money when what they really need is a livable wage and a viable social safety net

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