Payce Madden

Hands holding Nigerian naira notes and leather wallet

Figures of the week: Taxation in Africa over the last century

Thursday, October 15, 2020

FILE PHOTO: The new interim president of Mali Bah Ndaw is sworn in during the Inauguration ceremony in Bamako, Mali September 25, 2020. REUTERS/Amadou Keita/File Photo

Africa in the news: Mali’s transitional government, Somalia’s debt relief, and Togo’s first female prime minister

Saturday, October 10, 2020

A Malawian trader counts money as he sells maize near the capital Lilongwe, Malawi February 1, 2016. Floods and an El Nino-triggered drought have hit the staple maize crop, exposing the fragility of Malawi's progress, which was partly rooted in a fertiliser grant for small-scale farmers that the government, now starved of donor funds, can ill afford. Picture taken February 1, 2016. To match Insight AFRICA-DROUGHT/MALAWI. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings

Figures of the week: Financial inclusion of farmers in Africa

Wednesday, September 30, 2020

Somalia's Supreme Court Chairman Baashe Yusuf Ahmed swears in new prime minister Mohamed Hussein Roble in front of Somali parliament members in Mogadishu, Somalia September 23, 2020. REUTERS/Feisal Omar

Africa in the news: Zambia’s debt, Kenya’s parliament and trade, and politics in the Horn of Africa

Saturday, September 26, 2020

FILE PHOTO: Shoppers queue outside a grocery store during a 21 day nationwide lockdown, aimed at limiting the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Soweto, South Africa, March 30, 2020. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko/File Photo

Figure of the week: Challenges facing economic stimulus in sub-Saharan Africa

Wednesday, September 16, 2020

Sudan's Sovereign Council Chief General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, South Sudan's President Salva Kiir, and Sudan's Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok lift copies of a signed peace agreement with the country's five key rebel groups, a significant step towards resolving deep-rooted conflicts that raged under former leader Omar al-Bashir, in Juba, South Sudan August 31, 2020. REUTERS/Samir Bol

Africa in the news: Sudan peace deal, Ethiopia elections, and Eastern and Southern Africa updates

Saturday, September 12, 2020

Women workers inspect shoes at a Bata shoe factory in Abuja, Nigeria January 13, 2020. Picture taken January 13, 2020. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde

Figure of the week: The AfCFTA’s effects on trade and wages in Africa

Wednesday, September 2, 2020

Turkana sub county crops officer Alfons Aurun, displays data coming in from the E-locust phone app on his computer in his office in the town of Lodwar, Turkana county, Kenya, July 2, 2020, in this picture grab taken from a video. Picture taken July 2, 2020.REUTERS/Baz Ratner

Figures of the week: Digital skills and the future of work in Africa

Payce Madden and David Kanos

Wednesday, July 22, 2020

People gather to protest against the treatment of Ethiopia's ethnic Oromo group, outside Downing Street in London, Britain, July 3, 2020. REUTERS/Simon Dawson

Africa in the news: African women vie for leadership positions; Ethiopia, Côte d’Ivoire, and Tanzania updates

Saturday, July 11, 2020

A cashier of the Lagos State Ferry Service (LAGFERRY) counts money from the boat ticket sales at the Five Cowries Terminal in Falomo Lagos, Nigeria February 10, 2020. Picture taken February 10, 2020. REUTERS/Temilade Adelaja

Figures of the week: Improvement in tax transparency in Africa

David Kanos and Payce Madden

Thursday, July 2, 2020