The IFC, known as the world’s largest development institution focused on private sector growth in emerging markets, has ...

The World Bank has called on Malawi to urgently transition from a government-led to a private sector–driven growth model, ...

After the world’s largely disastrous response to the coronavirus, countries tasked the WHO with overseeing a pandemic treaty ...

World Bank Regional Practice director Daniel Dulitzky has said Malawi, like any other country, needs to have robust health ...

More than half a decade after the pandemic began, key information on COVID-19's origins continues to dribble out of the U.S. government — almost exclusively pointing to a Wuhan lab leak.

One in six people 60 years and older has experienced abuse in a community setting, the World Health Organization says.

After that rainy night on March 13, 2013, the Argentine-born Jorge Mario Bergoglio brought a breath of fresh air into a 2,000 ...

Wall Street is pointing higher a day after skepticism about the strength and safety of U.S. investments due to President ...

Washington, April 18, 2025—The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors approved today ... which provided vital financial relief and recovery support during and after the COVID-19 crisis. We look ...

LUSAKA, April 11 (Reuters) - Zambia will resume construction of a power line linking it to East Africa, creating one of the largest energy markets in the world ... due to COVID-19 as well as ...

The World Bank’s Response to COVID-19 in Zambia Zambia’s location in Southern Africa—it is surrounded by eight countries—increases the risk of imported diseases from neighboring countries and beyond.

He was a pope who understood the power of a simple touch: caressing the deformed head of a man in St. Peter's Square, washing the feet of a Muslim prisoner, sinking to his hands and knees to implore ...