Poverty Archives

Members of local youth teams supported by NGO Caracas Mi Convive, which seeks to keep young people away from violence, play a basketball game at Santa Eduviges neighbourhood in Caracas in August, 2022

Sports

Refereeing basketball to escape violence in Venezuela

Venezuelan Yorsibeth Teran scans the court as players scream at her to blow her whistle while locals watch, some drinking coffee.

AFPSeptember 14, 2022

Maria da Silva and her family of eight are among the 33.1 million Brazilians living in hunger, the subject of a bitter political battle as Latin America's biggest country heads for presidential elections in October 2022

World

Hunger returns to haunt Brazil amid divisive vote

In a small cement house crumbling to ruins in Brazil’s parched Sertao region, Maria da Silva, a graying matriarch struggling to feed her family,...

AFPSeptember 13, 2022

UK energy regulator Ofgem is due to announce its latest price cap on household bills, with big increases expected

Life

Energy crisis: Experts reveals easy hacks to keep your house warm

Home energy tip: Check your boiler pressure and adjust if there has been a drop in the pressure gauge.

Dr. Tim SandleSeptember 7, 2022

Bus drivers in London are due to strike over pay for two days this weekend

Business

UK real incomes to fall 10% in next two years: think tank

UK household incomes are set to fall 10 percent in real terms in the next two years in the steepest such drop for a...

AFPSeptember 1, 2022

Yangon residents queue to buy cheap vegetable oil as prices spike in Myanmar

Business

Fuel price hikes, scarce rice add to hardship in Myanmar

Dozens of people queue under monsoon drizzle for subsidised cooking oil in Myanmar’s commercial hub Yangon, waiting for one of the many commodities that...

AFPAugust 19, 2022

Breshna sits on a hospital bed with her four-month-old twins Subhania and Subhan in the malnutrition ward at a hospital run by Doctors Without Borders (MSF), in Lashkar Gah

World

Misery and disease conquer Afghanistan a year into Taliban rule

The heaving wards of a ramshackle clinic in southern Afghanistan are just one sign of the catastrophic humanitarian crisis that has gripped the war-ravaged...

AFPAugust 12, 2022

World

Misery and disease conquer Afghanistan a year into Taliban rule

The heaving wards of a ramshackle clinic in southern Afghanistan are just one sign of the catastrophic humanitarian crisis that has gripped the war-ravaged...

AFPAugust 9, 2022