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- Home to almost 60% of Africa’s population, the Eastern and Southern Africa (AFE) region is geographically, culturally, and economically diverse and comprises 26 countries stretching from the Red Sea in the North to the Cape of Good Hope in the South.
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Apr 12, 2024 · Home to almost 60% of Africa’s population, the Eastern and Southern Africa (AFE) region is geographically, culturally, and economically diverse and comprises 26 countries stretching from the Red Sea in the North to the Cape of Good Hope in the South. AFE boasts some of the world’s richest natural resources.
Jan 4, 2024 · KEY HIGHLIGHTS. Eastern and Southern Africa (AFE) has nearly achieved gender parity in primary education, with 25 million more girls enrolled in primary school in AFE today than in the early 2000s. 22.4 million women and girls accessed improved health, water, and sanitation services since 2013.
Apr 17, 2024 · Home to almost 60% of Africa’s population, the Eastern and Southern Africa (AFE) region is geographically, culturally, and economically diverse and comprises 26 countries stretching from the Red Sea in the North to the Cape of Good Hope in the South. AFE boasts some of the world’s richest natural resources.
Nov 21, 2023 · SYNOPSIS. The Eastern and Southern Africa (AFE) region has vast untapped renewable energy resources; however, a large number of people, communities, and public facilities do not have access to electricity, and clean cooking solutions, imposing limits on education, gender equity, economic growth, and development.
Apr 14, 2024 · In the Eastern and Southern Africa (AFE) sub-region, growth of economic activity is expected to accelerate from a trough of 2.2 per cent in 2023 to 3.2 per cent in 2024 and further to 3.6 per cent in 2025–2026. “The growth performance of the AFE sub-region is dragged down by lower-than-average growth in Angola and South Africa.
Background. The Eastern and Southern Africa region (ESAR) comprises of 25 countries. UN Women has a presence in 13 of these countries: Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, South Africa Multi-Country Office (MCO) and Zimbabwe.
Feb 4, 2022 · The countries of Eastern and Southern Africa (AFE) are home to 656 million people or over 8 percent of the world population. Many of these people are extremely poor—about 43 percent of the population lived on less than US$1.90 PPP per day in 2015–19 based on available data—and face challenges accessing safe and nutritious food every day.
