Amy Copley

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

Artisanal miners work at the Tilwizembe, a former industrial copper-cobalt mine, outside of Kolwezi, the capital city of Lualaba Province in the south of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, June 11, 2016. Picture taken June 11, 2016. REUTERS/Kenny Katombe - S1AETQHCKJAA

Africa in the news: Mining initiatives in DRC and Tanzania, cholera in Zambia and DRC, World Bank Global Economic Prospects report, and Foresight Africa 2018 launches

Friday, January 12, 2018

Ruth Munyao, a pharmacist, dispenses anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs at the Mater Hospital in Kenya's capital Nairobi, September 10, 2015. Most of the 3,000 patients at Mater Hospital's Comprehensive Care Clinic, dedicated to HIV/AIDS treatment, come from nearby shanty towns. In Kenya, HIV prevalence among adults has almost halved since the mid-1990s to 5.3 percent in 2014, according to UNAIDS. Yet HIV/AIDS remains the leading cause of death in Kenya, responsible for nearly three in 10 deaths in the east African country, where 1.6 million Kenyans are infected, government data in 2014 shows. Picture taken September 10, 2015. To match Special Series DEVELOPMENT-GOALS/KENYA-HEALTH REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya - GF10000201330

Figures of the week: Monitoring sub-Saharan Africa’s progress toward universal health care coverage

Friday, January 5, 2018

An employee registers a customer for a mobile money transfer, known as M-Pesa, inside the Safaricom mobile phone care centre in the central business district of Kenya's capital Nairobi July 15, 2013. To match Insight AFRICA-MOBILEMONEY/ Picture taken July 15, 2013. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya (KENYA - Tags: BUSINESS TELECOMS) - GM1EA7U1QTU01

Figures of the week: Blockchain opportunities and challenges in Africa

Friday, December 15, 2017

Ethiopia's Grand Renaissance Dam seen under construction during a media tour in Benishangul Gumuz Region, Guba Woreda, Ethiopia, in this March 31, 2015 file photo. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri/Files - GF10000383863

Figures of the week: Implementing African industrialization strategies

Friday, December 1, 2017

Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe attends a university graduation ceremony in Harare, Zimbabwe, November 17, 2017. REUTERS/Philimon Bulawayo - RC1DE37218E0

Africa in the news: Zimbabwe’s political crisis, new US-Africa engagement, and African airlines’ restructuring and expansion

Friday, November 17, 2017

A view of the Swali market alongside the river Nun, in Yenagoa, the capital of Nigeria's oil state of Bayelsa November 27, 2012. REUTERS/Akintunde Akinleye/File Photo - S1BETDVHRKAA

Figures of the week: The importance of fiscal consolidation and economic diversification in sub-Saharan Africa

Friday, November 3, 2017

A man helps a girl cross a log bridge after the flash flood washed away the concrete bridge at Pentagon, in Freetown, Sierra Leone August 18, 2017. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde - RC1BB1FE6700

Figures of the week: IMF predicts a pickup in global and sub-Saharan African growth, though warns of climate change threats

Thursday, October 12, 2017

Women from a local cocoa farmers association called BLAYEYA spread cocoa beans to dry in Djangobo, Niable in eastern Ivory Coast, November 17, 2014. REUTERS/Thierry Gouegnon/File Photo - D1AETIWRMRAA

Africa in the news: Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana set cocoa prices, emerging powers seek to expand influence in Africa, and health officials pledge to end cholera

Friday, October 6, 2017

Construction workers direct a crane at the Radisson hotel site in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, September 12, 2015. From Abidjan’s packed airport arrivals hall to the buildings mushrooming across the capital, Ivory Coast is booming, a rare African bright spot as the world’s biggest cocoa producer bounces back from a 2011 civil war. Buyers of luxury apartments include Ivorians living overseas, while promoters from Morocco, Turkey and China are attracted by tax breaks. Elections - the source of national unrest four years ago - are due in a month but there is no let-up in investment given expectations of an easy victory for incumbent Alassane Ouattara. The government predicts 9.6 percent growth this year, making the former French colony the standout performer on a continent hammered by a slump in commodity prices, capital outflows and tumbling currencies. REUTERS/Joe PenneyPICTURE 14 OF 33 FOR WIDER IMAGE STORY "IVORY COAST IS BOOMING". SEARCH "BOOMING PENNEY" FOR ALL IMAGES - GF10000219116

Figures of the week: China’s rebalancing and African growth

Thursday, September 14, 2017