Africa in Focus

A customer views an iPad at a mobile phone market in Khartoum, Sudan July 3, 2017. REUTERS/Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah - RC17CEEEC800

Foresight Africa viewpoint – Rethinking African growth and service delivery: Technology as a catalyst

Friday, January 12, 2018

Artisanal miners work at the Tilwizembe, a former industrial copper-cobalt mine, outside of Kolwezi, the capital city of Lualaba Province in the south of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, June 11, 2016. Picture taken June 11, 2016. REUTERS/Kenny Katombe - S1AETQHCKJAA

Africa in the news: Mining initiatives in DRC and Tanzania, cholera in Zambia and DRC, World Bank Global Economic Prospects report, and Foresight Africa 2018 launches

Friday, January 12, 2018

Cote d'Ivoire's President Alassane Ouattara (L) is greeted by United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres at the U.N. Headquarters in New York City, U.S., September 17, 2017. REUTERS/Joe Penney - RC15F4B1A6F0

Foresight Africa viewpoint – Emerging from crisis: Côte d’Ivoire’s success story

His Excellency Alassane Ouattara

Friday, January 12, 2018

Foresight Africa: Join the conversation on the top priorities for Africa in 2018

Brahima Sangafowa Coulibaly

Thursday, January 11, 2018

Said Omar, a lecturer at the Garissa University College, teaches third-year students as they return to the campus in Kenya's northeast town of Garissa, January 11, 2016. The campus reopened today nine months after an attack by Somalia-based al-Qaeda linked al-Shabaab Islamist militants. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya - D1BESGNVIAAA

Figures of the Week: Higher education enrollment grows in sub-Saharan Africa along with disparities in enrollment by income

Wednesday, January 10, 2018

George Weah, former soccer player and presidential candidate of Congress for Democratic Change (CDC), reacts while a speech during the party's presidential campaign rally at Samuel Kanyon Doe Sports Complex in Monrovia, Liberia, December 23, 2017. REUTERS/Thierry Gouegnon - RC1E1EC3A900

Africa in the news: Zimbabwe’s privatization efforts, Liberia and Uganda presidential updates, and Ethiopia’s prisoner announcement

Friday, January 5, 2018

Ruth Munyao, a pharmacist, dispenses anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs at the Mater Hospital in Kenya's capital Nairobi, September 10, 2015. Most of the 3,000 patients at Mater Hospital's Comprehensive Care Clinic, dedicated to HIV/AIDS treatment, come from nearby shanty towns. In Kenya, HIV prevalence among adults has almost halved since the mid-1990s to 5.3 percent in 2014, according to UNAIDS. Yet HIV/AIDS remains the leading cause of death in Kenya, responsible for nearly three in 10 deaths in the east African country, where 1.6 million Kenyans are infected, government data in 2014 shows. Picture taken September 10, 2015. To match Special Series DEVELOPMENT-GOALS/KENYA-HEALTH REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya - GF10000201330

Figures of the week: Monitoring sub-Saharan Africa’s progress toward universal health care coverage

Friday, January 5, 2018

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Top 10 figures of the year

Thursday, December 28, 2017

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

Figures of the week: Private credit growth slows in Kenya

Friday, December 22, 2017

Deputy president of South Africa Cyril Ramaphosa greets an ANC member during the 54th National Conference of the ruling African National Congress (ANC) at the Nasrec Expo Centre in Johannesburg, South Africa December 18, 2017. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko - RC1E9CE87C00

Ramaphosa’s victory: Progress or paralysis?

Witney Schneidman

Thursday, December 21, 2017

Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Emmanuel Macron and Malis President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita arrive for a media conference during a meeting to discuss how to speed up the implementation of the G5 West African counter-terrorism force, in La Celle Saint-Cloud, near Paris, France, December 13, 2017. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer - RC1669699860

Africa in the news: France hosts G-5 Sahel summit, Zimbabwe presents 2018 budget, and UN peacekeeping base in DRC attacked

Friday, December 15, 2017

An employee registers a customer for 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) - GM1EA7U1QTU01

Figures of the week: Blockchain opportunities and challenges in Africa

Friday, December 15, 2017

A general view shows Alexandra Township, an informal settlement for thousands of South Africans who lack the means to get a proper home, located near the upper-class suburb of Sandton in Johannesburg, South Africa July 28, 2016. Picture taken July 28, 2016. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko - D1BETSJZFKAA

Financing African cities: What is the role of land value capture?

Eyerusalem Siba and Mariama Sow

Thursday, December 14, 2017

A view of buildings in the Victoria Island district of Lagos October 29, 2013. REUTERS/Joe Penney (NIGERIA - Tags: CITYSCAPE ENVIRONMENT) - GM1E9AU0MFJ01

The crisis of African think tanks: Challenges and solutions

James McGann, Landry Signé, and Monde Muyangwa

Wednesday, December 13, 2017

A general view shows the entrance to the Nakumatt supermarket within the Village market complex mall, in Nairobi, Kenya, November 7, 2017. Picture taken November 7, 2017. To match Insight KENYA-RETAIL/ REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya - RC11DD4A0C60

Africa in the news: Nakumatt’s bankruptcy woes, Senegal’s new airport, and Cameroon’s growing crisis

Christina Golubski

Friday, December 8, 2017