Africa in Focus

A Kenyan worker wears a dust mask as she works at the Hela intimates export processing zone (EPZ) limited factory in Athi River, near Nairobi, Kenya, July 27, 2017. Picture taken July 27, 2017. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya - RC1C781F4880

Foresight Africa viewpoint – Manufacturing complexity in Africa

Haroon Bhorat and François Steenkamp

Monday, February 5, 2018

Supporters of Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga of the National Super Alliance (NASA) coalition gather ahead of Odinga's planned swearing-in ceremony as the President of the People's Assembly at Uhuru Park in Nairobi, Kenya January 30, 2018. REUTERS/Baz Ratner - RC1317FF2CB0

Africa in the news: Kenya media crackdown amid political turmoil, AU Summit highlights, and new Zimbabwe land policy

Christina Golubski

Friday, February 2, 2018

A Congolese policewoman and customs officials secure the gate barriers at their border crossing point with Rwanda in Goma town in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, August 29, 2013. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya/File Photo - S1BETDUZYLAA

Foresight Africa viewpoint – Africa’s bold move towards integration: The Continental Free Trade Agreement

Friday, February 2, 2018

Opposition leader Raila Odinga speaks at a news conference outside the court after President Uhuru Kenyatta's election win was declared invalid in Nairobi, Kenya, September 1, 2017. REUTERS/Baz Ratner - RC185311A080

Foresight Africa viewpoint – Elections in Africa in 2018: Lessons from Kenya’s 2017 electoral experiences

John Mukum Mbaku

Thursday, February 1, 2018

Entrepreneurs work on their projects at Nailab, a Kenyan firm that supports technology startups, behind the latest initiative, which targets entrepreneurs for their ideas on providing sex education through technology and social media in Nairobi, Kenya, July 4, 2016. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya - D1BETNPFQKAA

Foresight Africa viewpoint – African entrepreneurship in technology: Challenges and opportunities in 2018

Wednesday, January 31, 2018

A South Sudanese woman waiting to be flown back to her country stands at a counter at Khartoum Airport May 14, 2012. The first batch of South Sudanese, who are among more than 12,000 South Sudanese stuck in Kosti port in White Nile State for up to a year, was flown back to their country in an evacuation assisted by the International Organisation for Migration. The two old civil war foes have been at loggerheads over unresolved issues regarding oil exports, border demarcation, citizenship and financial arrangements since South Sudan broke away to become the world's newest nation last July. About 400,000 South Sudanese have returned home since October 2010, but more than half a million remain in Sudan. REUTERS/ Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah (SUDAN - Tags: POLITICS TRANSPORT) - GM1E85E1EIE01

Figures of the week: Africa’s Visa Openness Index

Wednesday, January 31, 2018

Chinese President Xi Jinping (R) and South Africa's President Jacob Zuma shake hands before the group photo during the BRICS Summit at the Xiamen International Conference and Exhibition Center in Xiamen, southeastern China's Fujian Province, China September 4, 2017. REUTERS/Kenzaburo Fukuhara/Pool - RC12CBC6B5B0

Foresight Africa viewpoint – China’s engagement in Africa: What can we learn in 2018 from the $60 billion commitment?

Tuesday, January 30, 2018

U.S. President Donald Trump shares a laugh with Guinea's President Alpha Conde (L), the Vice President of Nigeria Yemi Osinbajo (R) and other African leaders as they arrive to pose for a family photo with participants of the G7 summit during the Summit of the Heads of State and of Governments of the G7, the group of most industrialized economies, plus the European Union, in Taormina, Sicily, Italy, May 27, 2017. REUTERS/Stephane de Sakutin/Pool - RC1D3FEB60A0

Foresight Africa viewpoint – The US and Africa in 2018

Witney Schneidman and Jon Temin

Tuesday, January 30, 2018

South African President Kgalema Motlanthe, Mozambique's Prime Minister Luisa Diogo, Rwanda's President Paul Kagame, Niall FitzGerald, Deputy Chairman, Thomson Reuters, Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga, Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade, and former Secretary-General of the United Nations Kofi Annan (L-R) attend a session at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos January 30, 2009. More than 40 heads of state and government -- almost double the number last year -- will be joined at the WEF meeting by 36 finance ministers and central bankers, including the central bank chiefs of all the G8 group of rich countries except the United States. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse (SWITZERLAND) - BM2E51U0VKA01

Africa in the news: JP Morgan Chase plans Africa expansion, Davos meetings attract African leaders, and Total SA builds oil pipeline in Kenya

Friday, January 26, 2018

A street vendor sells vegetables in Harare, Zimbabwe, November 28, 2017. REUTERS/Philimon Bulawayo - RC1CA48E33D0

Foresight Africa viewpoint – Nutrition security: The last mile of Africa’s food security agenda

Eyerusalem Siba

Friday, January 26, 2018

A traffic controller gestures in front of minibus taxis as they transport commuters to work, in Soweto, Johannesburg, South Africa June 15, 2017. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko - RC1EB8915620

Foresight Africa viewpoint – Urban Africa: Avoiding the perfect storm

Jeffrey Gutman and Nirav Patel

Friday, January 26, 2018

Tagged sweet potato plants are seen on a field at the International Potato Center (CIP) experimental station in San Ramon at Peru's central jungle August 27, 2010. Located in a tropical rainforest with a similar ecosystem to developing countries across Asia and Africa, the station improves new crop varieties of potato and sweet potato to achieve better tolerance to diseases, droughts and higher temperatures caused by global warming. REUTERS/Enrique Castro-Mendivil (PERU - Tags: AGRICULTURE SOCIETY SCI TECH FOOD) - GM1E68S16LR01

Foresight Africa viewpoint – Why technology will disrupt and transform Africa’s agriculture sector in a good way

Friday, January 26, 2018

SPLA-IO rebels walk during an assault on government SPLA soldiers in the town of Kaya, on the border with Uganda

Foresight Africa viewpoint – Banking on peace in Africa’s conflict-affected states

Thursday, January 25, 2018

A street vendor poses with new bond notes in the capital Harare, Zimbabwe, November 28, 2016. REUTERS/Philimon Bulawayo - RC1810B8F2E0

Foresight Africa viewpoint – Debt by diaspora: Ties that bond

Michael Famoroti

Wednesday, January 24, 2018

Unused cooling towers are seen overlooking an informal settlement in Soweto, South Africa August 5, 2015. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - GF20000014473

Figures of the week: Human development in sub-Saharan Africa

Wednesday, January 24, 2018