Africa in focus

Dr.†Marie-Roseline Darnycka BÈlizaire, World Health Organisation (WHO) Epidemiology Team Lead, talks to women as part of Ebola contact tracing, in Mangina, Democratic Republic of Congo August 26, 2018. Picture taken August 26, 2018. WHO/Junior Kannah/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. - RC1AE1BC5700

Africa in the news: South Africa land reform advances, DRC Ebola update, and presidential term limits in Sudan

Dhruv Gandhi · Saturday, December 8, 2018

Workers are seen at the the Utexrwa garment factory in Kigali, Rwanda April 17, 2018. Picture taken April 17, 2018. REUTERS/Jean Bizimana - RC11BDF1B3C0

Figures of the week: Wage growth and employment in Africa

Friday, December 7, 2018

African Development Bank (AfDB) President Akinwumi Adesina gestures as he addresses a news conference on the first day of the annual meeting of AfDB in Gandhinagar, India, May 22, 2017. REUTERS/Amit Dave - RC1746196000

Placing investment at the center of Africa’s development strategy

Landry Signé and Witney Schneidman

Monday, December 3, 2018

An Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner plane waits to take off from the Bole International Airport in Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa August 21, 2015. Ethiopian Airlines is powering ahead with a plan to expand its fleet and route network after exceeding its profit target for the 2014/15 year, its chief executive said in an interview. To match Interview ETHIOPIA-AIRLINES/REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri - GF10000178432

Africa in the news: Minimum wage bill passes in South Africa and Addis Ababa leads in air traffic

Saturday, December 1, 2018

Money exchanges hands as a customer makes a purchase at a store in the sprawling Kibera slums in Kenya's capital Nairobi April 23, 2010. REUTERS/Noor Khamis (KENYA - Tags: SOCIETY BUSINESS) - GM1E65C0S7201

Figures of the week: Financing for small and medium-sized enterprises in sub-Saharan Africa

Friday, November 30, 2018

Unused cooling towers are seen overlooking an informal settlement as locals walk before sunset in Soweto, South Africa August 5, 2015. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko - GF20000014477

Figure of the week: Understanding poverty in Africa

Wednesday, November 21, 2018

A U.S. special forces soldier trains Nigerian soldiers during Flintlock 2016, a U.S.-led international training exercise with African militaries in Thies, Senegal, February 11, 2016. REUTERS/Sylvain Cherkaoui - GF10000305098

Africa in the news: US Ambassador to South Africa nominated, human rights in Tanzania, and American security presence

Saturday, November 17, 2018

Women walk past tomatoes displayed for sale in baskets along the kano-Zaria road in Kano, northwest Nigeria August 21, 2017. Picture taken August 21, 2017. REUTERS/Akintunde Akinleye. - RC1B78CDB380

How gender determines intergenerational mobility in Africa

Théophile T. Azomahou

Tuesday, November 13, 2018

School children, who were kidnapped by armed men and released on Wednesday, are helped to get into a truck by gendarmes in Bamenda, Cameroon November 7, 2018. REUTERS/Josiane Kouagheu - RC1299CA39D0

Africa in the news: New visa programs, kidnappings in Cameroon, and anti-gay campaign in Tanzania

Saturday, November 10, 2018

People walk through the streets of a shopping area in Addis Ababa May 26, 2014. Ethiopia has pushed the door ajar for foreign retailers keen to enter the fast-growing market of 90 million people, welcoming them as managers but keeping the state in control. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri (ETHIOPIA - Tags: BUSINESS) - GM1EA5R05A501

Figures of the week: Doing business in sub-Saharan Africa

Friday, November 9, 2018

FILE PHOTO: A South African Airways Airbus A320-200 aircraft (bottom) arrives as a Kenya Airways Boeing 737-800 aircraft prepares to take off at the OR Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg, South Africa, March 8, 2017. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko/File Photo - RC1E35E6C420

Africa in the news: South Sudan peace ceremony and South African Airways update

Saturday, November 3, 2018

Women stand in line for food aid distribution delivered by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and world food program in the village of Makunzi Wali, Central African Republic, April 27, 2017. Picture taken April 27, 2017 REUTERS/Baz Ratner - RC132928B970

Figures of the week: Realizing the full potential of social safety nets in Africa

Friday, November 2, 2018

Newly elected President Sahle-Work Zewde addresses the House of Peoples' Representatives in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia October 25, 2018. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri - RC121F910040

Africa in the news: South Africa budget update and Ethiopia appoints first female president

Friday, October 26, 2018

Employees work at the Kenya Cane spirit production line at the East African Breweries Limited factory in Ruaraka factory in Nairobi, Kenya April 6, 2018. Picture taken April 6, 2018. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya - RC1A3A3D7320

Figure of the week: Simulating the future of work in sub-Saharan Africa

Tuesday, October 23, 2018

A customer conducts 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) - GM1EA7U1QS601

Better tax collection can help tackle rising debt in Africa and the challenge of development finance

Brahima Sangafowa Coulibaly and Dhruv Gandhi

Monday, October 22, 2018