Chris Heitzig

A boy collects water from a shallow well on the Kenyan side of Moyale, June 11, 2009. Prolonged drought, lack of water and limited pasture have led to conflict between the Somali and Borena ethnic groups in southern Ethiopia ? that left hundreds of people dead in February this year. The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) says it needs some 100 million Swiss francs to prevent conflict, famine and epidemics as well as restore the livelihoods of 2.5 million people in the Horn of Africa. Picture taken June 11, 2009. REUTERS/Irada Humbatova (KENYA SOCIETY CONFLICT HEALTH)

Addressing Africa’s extreme water insecurity

Leo Holtz and Chris Heitzig

Friday, July 23, 2021

Players compete during a match of the Basketball Africa League (BAL) at the Kigali Arena in Kigali on May 27, 2021. - The French president arrived in Rwanda on May 27, 2021, for a highly symbolic visit aimed at moving on from three decades of diplomatic tensions over France's role in the 1994 genocide in the country. The French president is the first French leader since 2010 to visit the East African nation, which has long accused France of complicity in the killing of some 800,000 mostly Tutsi Rwandans. (Photo by Ludovic MARIN / various sources / Pool/ABACAPRESS.COM

Africa in the news: Basketball Africa League, COVID-19, and security updates

Chris Heitzig, Tamara White, and Leo Holtz

Saturday, June 5, 2021

Residents walk near destroyed homes with the smouldering lava deposited by the eruption of Mount Nyiragongo volcano near Goma, in the Democratic Republic of Congo May 23, 2021. REUTERS/Djaffar Al Katanty NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES. TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

Africa in the news: Mali coup, African vaccine production, and DRC volcano eruption

Tamara White, Leo Holtz, and Chris Heitzig

Saturday, May 29, 2021

In the city of Marrakech, Morocco on 10/20/2017. Photograph taken at the Mosque of Kutubia in the center of Marrakech where sun rays can be seen through solar panels. R

Africa’s green bond market trails behind other regions

Leo Holtz and Chris Heitzig

Friday, March 26, 2021

Mekele, Ethiopia - Nov 2018: Truck full of camels to be transported on the road in Ethiopian countryside

Figures of the week: Africa’s spatial distribution of road infrastructure

Leo Holtz and Chris Heitzig

Wednesday, March 17, 2021

A member of the French Red Cross disinfects the area around a motionless person suspected of carrying the Ebola virus as a crowd gathers in Forecariah January 30, 2015. Health officials botched more than 20 Ebola blood tests in January and February which led to the release of at least four positive patients, two of whom later died, Guinea's anti-Ebola coordinator and other health officials told Reuters. Picture taken January 30, 2015. REUTERS/Misha Hussain (GUINEA - Tags: DISASTER HEALTH)

Africa in the News: Risk of Ebola outbreak grows, South African economy rebounds, and politics update

Chris Heitzig and Leo Holtz

Saturday, March 13, 2021

Jihan Abass, founder and CEO of Griffin Insurance, holds her phone as she displays an insurance product under Griffin Motor app as they prepare to release their flagship digital-only car insurance company, in Nairobi, Kenya January 24, 2020. REUTERS/Jackson Njehia

Figures of the week: African insurance market poised for growth

Leo Holtz and Chris Heitzig

Wednesday, March 3, 2021

Sudanese pounds

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)

Figures of the week: Africa’s infrastructure paradox

Leo Holtz and Chris Heitzig

Wednesday, February 24, 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.

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

Leo Holtz and Chris Heitzig

Friday, February 19, 2021