PerSecond News - 534m people in Sub-Saharan Africa live in acute poverty, says UN

As we reach the midpoint of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, we can see that there was steady progress in multidimensional poverty reduction before the pandemic. 

However, the negative impacts of the pandemic in dimensions such as education are significant and can have long-lasting consequences.

We must intensify efforts to comprehend the dimensions most negatively affected, necessitating strengthened data collection and policy efforts to get poverty reduction back on track.