Africa in focus

Mozambicans walk past election posters ahead Tuesday's provincial and legislative elections, in Maputo, Mozambique, October 11, 2019 REUTERS/Grant Lee Neuenburg - RC1D5F9B7C60

Figures of the week: Gender gaps in sub-Saharan Africa

Dhruv Gandhi · Thursday, October 17, 2019

A man looks at a billboard with the image of Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, October 11, 2019. The billboard reads "Our Justice motto should be love, respect and anchor of morality for all human beings." REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri - RC1FE40221D0

Africa in the news: Abiy’s Nobel Prize, Rwanda’s new smartphone factory, and Zimbabwe’s rate hikes on power

Thursday, October 10, 2019

A Chinese construction labourer works at the site of the future Iconic Tower skyscraper, at its foundations in the business district, being built by China State Construction Engineering Corp (CSCEC) in the New Administrative Capital (NAC) east of Cairo, Egypt May 2, 2019. Picture taken May 2, 2019. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh - RC143E9C90F0

Figure of the week: Foreign direct investment in Africa

Wednesday, October 9, 2019

Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari meets with his South African counterpart Cyril Ramaphosa in Pretoria, South Africa, October 3, 2019. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko - RC1F3B4D3E60

Africa in the news: South Africa-Nigeria relations, U.S. embassy in Somalia, and UNECA, AU recommend tax reforms

Saturday, October 5, 2019

A conversation with Guinean President Condé on natural resource management in Africa

A conversation with Guinean President Condé on natural resource management in Africa

Christina Golubski

Thursday, October 3, 2019

Mulugeta Desalegn, an owner of a convenience store, or "spaza shop", picks an item for a customer as he holds a candle, in Senaone, Soweto, South Africa March 18, 2019. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko - RC13FB1CC910

Figure of the week: Deployment and use of back-up generators in sub-Saharan Africa

Wednesday, October 2, 2019

A boy walks past electoral campaign posters for presidential candidates in Niamey, Niger, February 16, 2016. Niger holds presidential and legislative elections on Sunday. REUTERS/Joe Penney - GF10000311379

How should Africans respond to the investment, technology, security, and trade wars?

Monday, September 30, 2019

United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres speaks during the opening of the 2019 United Nations Climate Action Summit at U.N. headquarters in New York City, New York, U.S., September 23, 2019. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson - HP1EF9N1LG1ZS

Africa in the news: UNGA, Zimbabwe, and Sudan updates

Saturday, September 28, 2019

Members of a heritage tour group, who are traveling to Ghana to explore their ancestral roots, look at a mobile phone outside the palace of Nana Boakye Yam Ababio II, Chief of Nkwantakese, in Ashanti region, Ghana August 10, 2019. Picture taken August 10, 2019. REUTERS/Francis Kokoroko - RC1775814300

Figure of the week: Africa’s growing mobile economy

Thursday, September 26, 2019

FILE PHOTO: A towel with a print of the Nigerian naira is displayed for sale at a street market in the central business district in Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos February 4, 2016. REUTERS/Akintunde Akinleye/File Photo - RC17DB8707D0

An evaluation of the single currency agenda in the ECOWAS region

Aloysius Uche Ordu

Tuesday, September 24, 2019

A construction worker is seen at a distance in a section of Ethiopia's Grand Renaissance Dam, as it undergoes construction, during a media tour along the river Nile in Benishangul Gumuz Region, Guba Woreda, in Ethiopia March 31, 2015. According to a government official, the dam has hit the 41 percent completion mark. Picture taken March 31, 2015. REUTER/Tiksa Negeri - GF10000046011

Africa in the news: Disagreement over the Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, Rwanda-Uganda dispute talks

Saturday, September 21, 2019

Women wash leaves on the bank of the Matan Fada river ahead of the Argungu fishing festival in Kebbi State, north-west Nigeria March 14, 2008. Hundreds of local fishermen from around Nigeria and other neighbouring countries of Niger and Mali are expected to participate in traditional bare-hand fishing at the annual Argungu fishing festival. REUTERS/Akintunde Akinleye (NIGERIA) - GM1E43E1QW301

Africa’s climate crisis, conflict, and migration challenges

Ahmadou Aly Mbaye

Friday, September 20, 2019

A girl looks through a window of a recovery ward at an obstetric fistula repair centre in Maiduguri, Nigeria August 1, 2018. Picture taken August 1, 2018. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde - RC1411E9FF70

Figures of the week: Subnational progress on health and education SDGs in Nigeria

Thursday, September 19, 2019

Delegates walk in front a poster of prominent attendees of the 1955 Asian-African Conference during a historical walk commemorating the 60-year anniversary of the Asian-African Summit, on Asia Afrika street in Bandung, Indonesia April 24, 2015. Leaders of Asian and African nations are in Jakarta to mark the 60th anniversary of a conference that made a developing-world stand against colonialism and led to the Cold War era's non-aligned movement.

The Global South and development assistance

Chukwuka Onyekwena and Mma Amara Ekeruche

Monday, September 16, 2019

A mourner holds a poster of Robert Mugabe during the viewing of his body

Africa in the news: SACU-UK trade agreement, Nigeria’s border closures, and Sudan’s transitional government

Christina Golubski

Saturday, September 14, 2019