Amy Copley

Congolese Health Ministry officials carry the first batch of experimental Ebola vaccines in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo May 16, 2018. REUTERS/Kenny Katombe - RC1D1B631BE0

Africa in the news: DRC’s Ebola response, South Sudan’s peace talks, and Kenya’s cybercrime law

Friday, May 18, 2018

Duncan Onyango, a game design developer at Planet Rackus works on MA3Racer, a 2D mobile game inside his studio in Kenya's capital Nairobi, July 15, 2014. Industry analysts have long hailed the explosive growth of mobile telecoms in sub-Saharan Africa - 635 million subscribers by the end of 2014 climbing to 930 million by the end of 2019 according to a report by Ericsson. But size isn't everything. It is the quality of those mobile phone connections, subscriptions and surrounding infrastructure that is holding up Africa's nascent games development industry, not the quantity of handsets. The number of expensive smartphones that can run sophisticated games and applications is low, accounting for only 14 percent of African mobile connections by the end of 2014, says research group Ovum. Planet Rackus's first edition of MA3Racer, a 2D mobile game, had more than a million downloads on Nokia's Ovi platform, reflecting strong demand. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya (KENYA - Tags: SOCIETY SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY BUSINESS TELECOMS) - GM1EA7F1HRG01

Figures of the week: The future of work in Africa

Thursday, May 3, 2018

South African union members march during a nationwide protest against a proposed minimum wage in Cape Town, South Africa, April 25, 2018. REUTERS/Sumaya Hisham - RC16A0E91300

Africa in the news: Minimum wage in South Africa, protests in Madagascar, and fuel crisis in Sudan

Friday, April 27, 2018

Women carry boxes of nutritional food delivered by the United Nations World Food Programme (UN WFP), in Rubkuai village, Unity State, South Sudan February 16, 2017. Picture taken February 16, 2017. REUTERS/Siegfried Modola - RC17BC6E59B0

Figures of the week: The state of social safety nets in Africa

Thursday, April 12, 2018

A shopper walks past an MTN shop at a mall in Johannesburg, South Africa, March 2, 2017. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko - RC1A116E0960

Africa in the news: Ethiopia’s new PM, Ghana’s record IPO, and Angola and UK uncover fraud

Friday, March 30, 2018

Migrants arrive at a naval base after they were rescued by Libyan coast guards in Tripoli, Libya, December 16, 2017. REUTERS/Ismail Zitouny - RC1D12550710

Figures of the week: Happiness and migration within and from sub-Saharan Africa

Thursday, March 22, 2018

Vendors sell vegetables in a market in Monrovia October 1, 2014. The threat of hunger is tracking Ebola across affected West African nations as the disease kills farmers and their families, drives workers from the fields and creates food shortages. Picture taken October 1, 2014. REUTERS/James Giahyue (LIBERIA - Tags: HEALTH DISASTER FOOD) - GM1EAA309CA01

Figure of the week: Zeroing in on illicit flows in West Africa

Thursday, February 22, 2018

South Africa's President Jacob Zuma looks down as he speaks at the Union Buildings in Pretoria, South Africa, February 14, 2018. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RC11C8881F30

Africa in the news: Leadership changes, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf wins Ibrahim prize, and Kenya’s credit rating is downgraded

Friday, February 16, 2018

A man walks along a street in the Rwanda's capital Kigali, May 11, 2016. REUTERS/Ed Cropley - S1BETDKVJGAA

Figures of the week: Addressing barriers to development in Africa’s cities

Friday, February 9, 2018

AGI, AERC, KIPPRA, and participants of the Foresight Africa Nairobi launch take a family photo.

Foresight Africa: Notes from the launches across the continent

Christina Golubski and Amy Copley

Thursday, February 8, 2018