Africa in Focus

A view showing the tower and departure sign outside the Murtala Mohammed International airport in Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos, May 11, 2017. REUTERS/Akintunde Akinleye - RC1A51F62B00

Figures of the week: International trade in services

Thursday, June 6, 2019

A manufacturer, works on sportswear in Adjame, Abidjan, Ivory Coast, May 16, 2019. REUTERS/Thierry Gouegnon - RC1BDE579120

Africa’s industrialization under the Continental Free Trade Area: Local strategies for global competitiveness

Tuesday, June 4, 2019

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari waves at the crowd while he drives around the venue during his inauguration for a second term in Abuja, Nigeria May 29, 2019. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde - RC1A84EB7CC0

Africa in the news: AfCFTA enters into force, South Africa and Senegal tackle climate change, and presidents inaugurated in Nigeria and Malawi

Christina Golubski

Saturday, June 1, 2019

Trucks and commericial vehicles are unloaded at the Mercato market in Addis Ababa September 11, 2015. Addis Ababa's 'Mercato' - Italian for 'market' - is reputedly the biggest open-air market in Africa, lying in the west of the capital. Supermarkets have sprouted across the city as the metropolis has expanded with Ethiopia's booming economy, but Mercato remains a popular destination for shoppers seeking clothing, electronics and a huge range of other items. It has been around for as long as the city, which was founded at the end of the 19th century, but it took its current form, and its name, from the Italians who invaded Ethiopia in 1935. The Italian occupation ended in 1941. Picture taken September 11, 2015. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri - GF10000267939

Figures of the week: With AfCFTA officially in force, Africa is now the largest free trade area

Thursday, May 30, 2019

Traffic passes along a street with buildings under construction in Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa, September 16, 2013. When global drinks giant Diageo bought a brewery in Ethiopia, it paid a premium for a stake in a barely tapped African market that in the 1980s had spectacularly failed to feed its own population. Ethiopia is now sub-Saharan Africa's fifth biggest economy, leap-frogging next door Kenya and wooing investors from Sweden, Britain and China, as other emerging markets lose some of their shine. Picture taken September 16, 2013. To match Insight ETHIOPIA-ECONOMY/ REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri (ETHIOPIA - Tags: POLITICS SOCIETY BUSINESS CONSTRUCTION) - GM1E99I040U01

Figure of the week: Governance and economic growth in Africa

Thursday, May 23, 2019

A man holds up his mobile phone showing a M-Pesa mobile money transaction page for the photographer at an open air market in Kibera in Kenya's capital Nairobi December 31, 2014. Safaricom, Kenya's biggest telecoms firm, is a model of how technology can be used to financially include millions of people with mobile telephones but without access to traditional infrastructure such as the banks that are available to the wealthy or those living in cities. Safaricom in 2007 pioneered its M-Pesa mobile money transfer technology, now used across Africa, Asia and Europe. It proved that money can be made from people who earn a few dollars a day. REUTERS/Noor Khamis (KENYA - Tags: BUSINESS SOCIETY SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY TELECOMS) - GM1EACV1IZY01

Beyond mobile payments: Going up the value chain of fintech in Africa

Monday, May 20, 2019

Student Rutendo Madziva reads by candlelight during an electrical power cut in Marondera, Zimbabwe, May 14, 2019. Picture taken May 14, 2019.REUTERS/Philimon Bulawayo - RC1F73894D30

Africa in the news: Kenya’s new eurobond, Zimbabwe’s rebased GDP, and Sudan, Benin, and Togo political updates

Christina Golubski

Saturday, May 18, 2019

A newspaper vendor counts out change for a customer in Durban, September 8, 2015. South Africa's rand firmed more than 1 percent against the dollar, recovering from record lows in the previous session as bets on a rate hike in United States faded due to worries over global growth. The rand rose 1.04 percent to 13.8150 per dollar. REUTERS/Rogan Ward - GF10000197505

Figures of the week: Domestic revenue mobilization in Africa

Thursday, May 16, 2019

Workers pour brewing ingredients in a copper kettle at the Nile Brewery Company, 76 kilometres (46 miles) east of Uganda's capital Kampala, March 31, 2009. Big brewers operating in Africa may be slower to dismiss the threat from the global economic crisis that has caused economic havoc in the Democratic Republic of Congo and elsewhere. Some brewers report a slowdown in sales growth, but they say Africa nevertheless offers rich expansion prospects compared with elsewhere, and even reduced growth on the continent will outstrip that of other regions this year. Picture taken March 31, 2009. To match feature BEER-AFRICA/ REUTERS/James Akena (UGANDA BUSINESS FOOD DRINK) - GM1E54H0PQE01

Boosting domestic revenues through Tax Appeals Tribunals: Lessons from Uganda

Brian Sserunjogi and Corti Paul Lakuma

Wednesday, May 15, 2019

Election officials seal ballot boxes at the end of voting in South Africa's parliamentary and provincial elections at a polling station in Johannesburg, South Africa, May 8,2019. REUTERS/Philimon Bulawayo - RC197F6624B0

Africa in the news: Election results in South Africa, low wages in Ethiopia, and new World Bank funding for Africa

Saturday, May 11, 2019

People move on a street of Marina in Victoria Island, Lagos, Nigeria February 15, 2019. REUTERS/Temilade Adelaja - RC1AA6282BF0

Figures of the week: Unique challenges facing African urbanization

Thursday, May 9, 2019

Musa Masina looks at election posters with the face of ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa, before hanging them on street poles in Soweto, South Africa, March 12, 2019. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko - RC1E91576A50

South Africa’s May 8 election will decide the future of the ANC

Steven Friedman

Sunday, May 5, 2019

Sudanese protesters attend a demonstration in front of the defense ministry compound in Khartoum, Sudan, May 2, 2019. REUTERS/Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RC1842B87200

Africa in the news: Sudan, Benin, Nigeria, and Sahel updates

Saturday, May 4, 2019

A soldier checks a truck loaded with goods at a military check point in Dapchi, Yobe state, Nigeria February 27, 2018. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde - RC19251521B0

Figures of the week: AfCFTA implementation and key barriers to intra-regional trade in Africa

Friday, May 3, 2019

Senegal's President Macky Sall and Chinese President Xi Jinping enter the stadium during the opening ceremony of the Arene Nationale du Senegal in Dakar, Senegal July 22, 2018. REUTERS/Mikal McAllister - RC1CB00541E0

One year on, the role of the China International Development Cooperation Administration remains cloudy

Tuesday, April 30, 2019