Africa in Focus

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

A man rides a motorbike with a delivery box along a road in Ajose Adeogun district in Victoria Island, Lagos, Nigeria June 4, 2018. Picture taken June 4, 2018. REUTERS/Akintunde Akinleye - RC1C91FE5F80

A gig economy solution to boost employment in Africa

Wednesday, March 20, 2019

Women carry water through the flooded Jamam refugee camp in South Sudan's Upper Nile July 1, 2012. REUTERS/Adriane Ohanesian (SOUTH SUDAN - Tags: SOCIETY ENVIRONMENT) - GM1E87217LH01

Life in fragile states: A young girl’s journey

Victoria Nassera

Tuesday, March 19, 2019

Cattle run as a helicopter flies overhead along the Komadougou Yobe river which separates Niger and Nigeria, outside Damasak March 24, 2015. Boko Haram militants have kidnapped more than 400 women and children from the northern Nigerian town of Damasak that was freed this month by troops from Niger and Chad, residents said on Tuesday. Nigerian, Chadian and Niger forces have driven militants out of a string of towns in simultaneous offensives over the past month. REUTERS/Joe Penney - GF10000037002

Local institutions can mitigate climate-related conflict in the Sahel

Ahmadou Aly Mbaye

Monday, March 18, 2019

French President Emmanuel Macron inspects a guard of honour by the Kenya Defence Forces at State House in Nairobi, Kenya March 13, 2019. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya - RC135F2FDDE0

Africa in the news: French president and US diplomats visit the continent, Guinea-Bissau parliament elected, and first African start-up will be listed on the NYSE

Christina Golubski

Saturday, March 16, 2019

A maize plant is seen at a field in Hoopstad, a maize-producing district in the Free State province, South Africa, January 13, 2016. Mid-summer rains may be too little, too late for farmers as the South African countryside bakes under the worst drought in over a century. Last year was the driest on record. Picture taken January 13. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko - GF20000094826

An African-owned initiative to manage natural disaster and climate risks

Mohamed Beavogui

Thursday, March 14, 2019

A man counts bond notes at a vegetable market in Harare, Zimbabwe, January 23, 2019. REUTERS/Philimon Bulawayo - RC11BE7ABB10

Financing the frontier: Risk, reward, and reality in Africa’s fragile states

Tuesday, March 12, 2019

A man casts his vote during the Nigeria's presidential election at a polling station in Kazaure, Jigawa State, Nigeria, February 23, 2019. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde - RC19F7389C30

Is there a tension between democracy and economic development in Africa?

Ernest Aryeetey

Monday, March 11, 2019

Africa in the news: Oil corruption charges move forward in Nigeria, airport workers strike in Kenya, and DRC updates

Christina Golubski

Saturday, March 9, 2019

Figure of the week: Comparing Tanzania’s modern urban form to its original urban plan

Thursday, March 7, 2019