Sub-Saharan Africa faces aging crisis amid surging elderly population

In just 15 years, sub-Saharan Africa has seen the number of people over 60 balloon by an estimated 50 per cent to about 67 million.

As people live longer, due to factors like better healthcare and lower child mortality, countries like Uganda are struggling to cope.

“It is a very difficult place for people to grow old. Especially, I have now become old, and I’m starting to feel the challenges of growing old,” said 74-year-old Edith…