Africa’s rapidly ageing population is in need of social protection, yet it continues to be largely overlooked

Our blogger, Madeleine Cretney, is a Social Policy Officer at Development Pathways.  Africa may currently be the youngest continent in the world, but the growth of its older population this century will outstrip that of any other region. According to a 2019 UN report on population ageing, the continent will see a three-fold increase in the number...