Africa in focus

Delegates walk outside the International Monetary Fund headquarters building ahead of the IMF/World Bank spring meetings in Washington, U.S., April 8, 2019. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas - RC17038BDDE0

African economies, digitalization, and fragility: Insights from the Spring Meetings

Landry Signé · Thursday, April 18, 2019

Sudanese military officers and demonstrators ride atop a military tanker as they protest against the army's announcement that President Omar al-Bashir would be replaced by a military-led transitional council, near Defence Ministry in Khartoum, Sudan April 12, 2019. REUTERS/Stringer - RC1BA0866340

Africa in the news: Sudan faces regime change, Vatican hosts South Sudan peace summit, and IMF and World Bank release growth projections

Christina Golubski

Saturday, April 13, 2019

A man holds his phone to take a Facebook live video near a chasm suspected to have been caused by a heavy downpour along an underground fault-line near the Rift Valley town of Mai Mahiu, Kenya March 28, 2018. Picture taken March 28, 2018. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya - RC12E3D4ACD0

Figure of the week: Gap in universal mobile phone and internet access in Africa

Friday, April 12, 2019

A trader changes dollars with naira at a currency exchange store in Lagos

Is a debt crisis looming in Africa?

Chukwuka Onyekwena and Mma Amara Ekeruche

Wednesday, April 10, 2019

People carry flags during a protest demanding radical change in Algiers, Algeria April 5, 2019

Africa in the news: African Continental Free Trade Agreement updates, Algeria’s president resigns, and Vodacom Tanzania executives face criminal charges

Saturday, April 6, 2019

A man stands in front of an electronic board displaying market data at the Nairobi Securities Exchange in Nairobi, Kenya April 11, 2017. REUTERS/Baz Ratner - RC164D4FAF40

Looming debt crisis in Africa: Myth or reality?

Brahima Sangafowa Coulibaly, Dhruv Gandhi, and Lemma Senbet

Friday, April 5, 2019

People wait to receive aid at a camp for the people displaced in the aftermath of Cyclone Idai in John Segredo near Beira, Mozambique March 31, 2019. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra?? - RC11914B18B0

Figure of the week: Cyclone Idai’s impact on Mozambique

Friday, April 5, 2019

A customer walks past wedding dresses at a bridal shop ih Johannesburg, South Africa May 14, 2018. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko - RC12B1DF4210

Africa’s emerging economies to take the lead in consumer market growth

Wednesday, April 3, 2019

Survivors of cyclone Idai are seen through a destroyed building as they gather to receive aid at Coppa business center in Chipinge, Zimbabwe, March 25, 2019. Picture taken March 25, 2019. REUTERS/Philimon Bulawayo - RC1AFE44B330

Cyclone Idai exposes the gap of disaster risk relief financing in Africa

Mohamed Beavogui

Monday, April 1, 2019

Comoros incumbent President Azali Assoumani casts his ballot for the presidential election at a polling station in Mitsoudje, in Comoros March 24, 2019. REUTERS/Ali Amir Ahmed - RC1BAD1F0500

Africa in the news: Disputed election in Comoros, US sanctions on Cameroon, and attack on Mali villages

Saturday, March 30, 2019

Boys walk past electricity pylons and the cooling towers of the defunct Orlando Power Station in Soweto, South Africa, June 28, 2018. Picture taken June 28, 2018. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko - RC164C8E8250

Figure of the week: Electricity access in Africa

Friday, March 29, 2019

Vital Sounouvou (C) of Benin, raises his hand trying to be called on from U.S. President Barack Obama, at the Summit of the Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, July 28, 2014. REUTERS/Larry Downing (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS EDUCATION) - GM1EA7T017E01

Africa youth leadership: Building local leaders to solve global challenges

Wednesday, March 27, 2019

Workers sew clothes inside the Indochine Apparel PLC textile factory in Hawassa Industrial Park in Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples region, Ethiopia November 17, 2017. Picture taken November 17, 2017.REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri - RC15A6463860

Ethiopia: Africa’s next powerhouse?

Witney Schneidman

Tuesday, March 26, 2019

Locals affected by Cyclone Idai walk on flooded land in Buzi district outside Beira, Mozambique, March 21, 2019. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko - RC12561ABC30

Africa in the news: Cyclone Idai, $47 billion for climate finance, and power shortages in South Africa

Saturday, March 23, 2019

Water drips from a tap as people sit in the Eshash el-Sudan slum in the Dokki neighbourhood of Giza, south of Cairo, Egypt September 2, 2015. Residents of the slum clashed with police in late August, when about 50 ramshackle huts were destroyed and at least 20 people were injured by teargas, local media reported, as authorities attempt to clear the area and rehouse residents. The slum dwellers, some of whom have called Eshash el-Sudan home for 50 years, say there are not enough apartments built nearby to house them. The residents of the slum eke out a living by disposing of rubbish or baking bread. Schooling is too expensive for most of their children, who play with salvaged rubbish amid shacks made out of discarded wood and leather. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah DalshSEARCH "ESHASH EL-SUDAN" FOR ALL PICTURES - GF10000200359

Figure of the week: Climate change and hydro-political interactions in Africa

Friday, March 22, 2019