Chris Heitzig

FILE PHOTO: A nurse prepares to administer the AstraZeneca/Oxford COVID-19 vaccine under the COVAX scheme at the Eka Kotebe General Hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia March 13, 2021. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri/File Photo

Africa in the news: Guinea, Côte d’Ivoire, and vaccine updates

Saturday, September 11, 2021

Large stacked container ship leaving the port of Cape Town with Table mountain and the city in the background, South Africa.

Africa in the news: South African economy, energy production, and Nigerian foreign relations updates

Mary Blankenship, Chris Heitzig, and Tamara White

Saturday, August 28, 2021

FILE PHOTO: Hakainde Hichilema, leader of Zambia's opposition United Party for National Development (UPND), addresses a media conference in Cape Town, South Africa, August 31, 2017. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings/File Photo

Africa in the news: Zambian election, impacts of the Taliban’s Afghanistan takeover, and health updates

Chris Heitzig, Tamara White, and Mary Blankenship

Saturday, August 21, 2021

FILE PHOTO: South Sudan's First Vice President Riek Machar attends his swearing-in ceremony at the State House in Juba, South Sudan, February 22, 2020. REUTERS/Samir Bol/File Photo

Africa in the news: Politics, security, and wildlife poaching updates

Chris Heitzig, Mary Blankenship, and Tamara White

Saturday, August 7, 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