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Africa in Focus

Africa in the news: Sudan, COVID-19 vaccine, and political updates

Chris Heitzig and Leo Holtz

Saturday, February 27, 2021

A man rides his horse near power lines supplying energy to platinum mines in Marikana June 20, 2014. Around 70 000 platinum miners have been on strike for 5 months as negotiations around wages and benefits continue. REUTERS/Rogan Ward (SOUTH AFRICA - Tags: ENERGY BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT POLITICS)

Africa in Focus

Figures of the week: Africa’s infrastructure paradox

Leo Holtz and Chris Heitzig

Wednesday, February 24, 2021

The KCD open pit gold mine, operated by Randgold, at the Kibali mining site in northeast Democratic Republic of Congo, May 1, 2014. REUTERS/Pete Jones/File Photo

Africa in Focus

Africa in the news: Mining disputes, COVID-19 and Ebola updates, and an increase in foreign troops in CAR and the Sahel

Christina Golubski and Leo Holtz

Saturday, February 20, 2021

A small child wearing a facemask is seen at a volunteer food drive in Mountain View, an informal settlement in Jamestown, located in the Cape Winelands District, on Saturday, May 29, 2020. It's estimated that most, if not all, of the households here had no income, due to unemployement during lockdown. Cape Winelands is one of the districts in the Western Cape that has been designated a hotspot area, in terms of people testing positive for COVID-19. When South Africa moves down to Stage 3 of the nationwide lockdown on June 1st, hotspots areas will remain under stricter regulation and surveillance, per the latest government announcements. Photo by Eva-Lotta Jansson/RealTime Images/ABACAPRESS.COMNo Use South Africa.

Africa in Focus

Figures of the week: Addressing COVID-19’s disruption to African development progress

Leo Holtz and Chris Heitzig

Friday, February 19, 2021

An aerial view of shipping containers stacked at the port of Singapore February 14, 2012. REUTERS/Edgar Su/File Photo GLOBAL BUSINESS WEEK AHEAD PACKAGE SEARCH BUSINESS WEEK AHEAD 12 DEC FOR ALL IMAGES

Order from Chaos

The US must urgently rethink its economic policies in Asia

David Dollar and Jonathan Stromseth

Wednesday, February 17, 2021

A girl gets an African-Colombian hairstyle during the Afro-hairstyles X Competition in Cali June 1, 2014. REUTERS/Jaime Saldarriaga (COLOMBIA - Tags: SOCIETY)

How We Rise

Penalizing Black hair in the name of academic success is undeniably racist, unfounded, and against the law

Howard Henderson and Jennifer Wyatt Bourgeois

Tuesday, February 23, 2021

Shi'ite fighters gather to fight against Islamic State militants in al-Fatha, northeast of Baiji, October 18, 2015. Iraqi forces backed by Shi'ite militia fighters say they have retaken a mountain palace complex of former President Saddam Hussein from Islamic State fighters, as government forces push ahead on a major offensive against the insurgents. REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani

Order from Chaos

To save Iraq from economic collapse and fight ISIS, contain Iran’s proxies

Wednesday, February 17, 2021

Lydia Stephens, owner/director of Montessori Life preschool, second from right, works with teacher Brandi Crawford, right, with the children at the preschool in Macedonia.Bob Montessory Life 4

Brown Center Chalkboard

Stabilizing child care requires more than emergency COVID-19 relief funds

Daphna Bassok, Anna Markowitz, and Laura Bellows

Tuesday, February 16, 2021

On the front line of Al Swani during the clashes, a fighter of Brigade 610 (GNA) fires with his machine-gun while his comrade points his finger towards the enemy. Since April, the Libyan National Army (LNA) led by Khalifa Haftar is attempting to take control of Tripoli defended by the forces of UN-backed recognised Government of National Accord of Fayez el-Sarraj (GNA). Libya, outskirts of Tripoli, December 6, 2019. Sur la ligne de front de Al Swani pendant les affrontements, un combattant de la brigade 610 (GAN) tire avec sa mitraille alors que son camarade pointe du doigt l'ennemi. Depuis avril, l'armee nationale Libyenne (LNA) dirigee par Khalifa Haftar essaie de prendre le control de Tripoli defendu par les forces du gouvernement d'accord national de Fayez al-Sarraj, soutenu par l'onu (GAN). Libye, banlieue de Tripoli, 6 decembre 2019.NO USE FRANCE

Order from Chaos

Around the halls: Experts analyze the Libya conflict, 10 years on

Jeffrey Feltman, Federica Saini Fasanotti, Pavel Baev, Courtney Freer, and Ranj Alaaldin

Wednesday, February 17, 2021

An employee dismantles old solar panels, for e-waste processing, at E-Terra Matter Recovery and Recycling Facility in Festac, Lagos, Nigeria June 19, 2020. Picture taken June 19, 2020. REUTERS/Temilade Adelaja

Africa in Focus

Building African economies back, better and stronger than before

Akinwumi A. Adesina

Tuesday, February 16, 2021

A view shows Mars in this handout picture taken after UAE's Hope Probe entered orbit in the first Arab Mars mission February 10, 2021. Picture taken February 10, 2021. United Arab Emirates Space Agency/Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre / LASP / EMM-EXI/Handout via REUTERS. THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES

TechTank

Will Mars become an object of international competition?

Darrell M. West

Tuesday, February 16, 2021

An Ethiopian refugee couple who fled Tigray region, build a makeshift shelter within the Um-Rakoba camp in Al-Qadarif state, on the border in Sudan December 11, 2020. REUTERS/Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah

Future Development

Wanted: Economic principles for post-conflict recovery

Tuesday, February 16, 2021

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks with the media as he arrives at the parliament house to attend the first day of the budget session, in New Delhi, India, January 29, 2021. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi

Order from Chaos

India and the Biden administration

Tuesday, February 16, 2021

Delegates cast their vote for the election of a new interim government for Libya during the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum in Chavannes-de-Bogis near Geneva, Switzerland, February 5, 2021. U.N. Photo/Handout via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES

Order from Chaos

Can a political breakthrough mend a broken Libya?

Stephanie Turco Williams and Jeffrey Feltman

Wednesday, February 17, 2021

The Sioux Falls School Board holds a special meeting to discuss changing policy for close contact quarantine on Wednesday, September 30, at the Instructional Planning Center in Sioux Falls.School Board Special Meeting 003

Brown Center Chalkboard

Who governs our public schools?

Vladimir Kogan, Stéphane Lavertu, and Zachary Peskowitz

Wednesday, February 17, 2021