COVID-19
Learn more about the World Bank Group’s response to COVID-19 in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Learn more about the World Bank Group’s response to COVID-19 in Sub-Saharan Africa.
We are scaling up our engagements on gender-based violence in FCV states, including working with the Panzi Foundation in the DRC
Until recently, the DRC was one of the few countries in the world where primary education wasn’t free, but things have changed.
World Bank funds help provide equal access to education for all school age children.
The latest economic analysis for the region predicts predicts economic activity will decline by 3.3 percent in 2020, confirming the region’s first recession in 25 years.
Africa’s poorest countries saw little to no progress on average in improving the quality of their policy and institutional frameworks in 2018.
With IDA’s help, hundreds of millions of people have escaped poverty—through the creation of jobs, access to clean water, schools, roads, nutrition, electricity, and more.
Watch, listen and click through the latest videos, podcasts and slideshows highlighting the World Bank’s work in Sub-Saharan Africa.
The Doing Business report provides objective measures of business regulations and their enforcement. See where your country ranks.
