Africa in Focus

A nurse attends to newborn babies in the nursery at the Juba Teaching Hospital in Juba April 3, 2013. Very few births in South Sudan, which has the highest maternal mortality rate in the world at 2,054 per 100,000 live births, are assisted by trained midwives, according to the UNDP's website. Picture taken April 3, 2013. REUTERS/Andreea Campeanu (SOUTH SUDAN - Tags: SOCIETY HEALTH) - GM1E94415TG01

Figures of the week: Inequality in health and education outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa

Wednesday, December 6, 2017

People celebrate as Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta takes the oath of office during his swearing-in ceremony at Kasarani Stadium in Nairobi, Kenya November 28, 2017. REUTERS/Baz Ratner - RC1819DA2B50

Africa in the news: Zimbabwean and Kenyan politics, Libyan migrant slave trade, and the AU-EU Summit

Friday, December 1, 2017

Ethiopia's Grand Renaissance Dam seen under construction during a media tour in Benishangul Gumuz Region, Guba Woreda, Ethiopia, in this March 31, 2015 file photo. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri/Files - GF10000383863

Figures of the week: Implementing African industrialization strategies

Friday, December 1, 2017

A woman from the Daborin Single Mothers Association winnows rice at a small processing plant in the northern Ghanaian town of Bolgatanga, February 1, 2008. The single mothers began their organisation to gain more freedom and financial independence in a district where most farmers live on the equivalent of about a dollar a day, according to Oxfam, which helps fund the women's programme. REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly (GHANA) - GM1DXEDNSSAA

Enhancing food and nutrition security in a newly middle-income country: Ghana’s unique challenge

Francis Mulangu

Thursday, November 30, 2017

Employees work on the manufacturing line at the United Aryan Export Processing Zone textile factory in Nairobi, Kenya April 13, 2017. Picture taken April 13, 2017. REUTERS/Baz Ratner - RC116416CF10

3 things to know about Africa’s industrialization and the Continental Free Trade Area

Wednesday, November 22, 2017

Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe attends a university graduation ceremony in Harare, Zimbabwe, November 17, 2017. REUTERS/Philimon Bulawayo - RC1DE37218E0

Africa in the news: Zimbabwe’s political crisis, new US-Africa engagement, and African airlines’ restructuring and expansion

Friday, November 17, 2017

Kenya Railways attendants receive a train, launched to operate on the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) line constructed by the China Road and Bridge Corporation (CRBC) and financed by Chinese government, as it arrives at the Nairobi Terminus on the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya May 31, 2017. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya - RC16DF2D1380

The road ahead for fixing Africa’s infrastructure deficit

Thursday, November 16, 2017

Michael Otieno, 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 - GF10000201331

Figure of the week: Africa’s progress on the SDGs and Agenda 2063

Thursday, November 16, 2017

Workers walk near a cargo ship at the Beira port in Mozambique, February 15, 2013. Mozambique has named miner Rio Tinto as one of six preferred bidders for a new $3 billion railway and port development project to boost coal exports, the country's transport minister said on April 10, 2013. Picture taken February 15, 2013. REUTERS/Agnieszka Flak (MOZAMBIQUE - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS TRANSPORT) - GM1E94B0R0W01

Figures of the Week: Sub-Saharan African countries implement e-governance initiatives

Thursday, November 9, 2017

Supporters of George Weah, former soccer player and presidential candidate of Congress for Democratic Change (CDC), celebrate after the announcement of the presidential election results on the radio, in Monrovia, Liberia October 19, 2017. REUTERS/Thierry Gouegnon - RC1589A09A80

Africa in the news: Sahel security, Liberian and Kenyan elections, and Nigerian economic updates

Friday, November 3, 2017

A view of the Swali market alongside the river Nun, in Yenagoa, the capital of Nigeria's oil state of Bayelsa November 27, 2012. REUTERS/Akintunde Akinleye/File Photo - S1BETDVHRKAA

Figures of the week: The importance of fiscal consolidation and economic diversification in sub-Saharan Africa

Friday, November 3, 2017

Traffic builds up on a main street in the Rwandan capital Kigali, December 17, 2015. REUTERS/James Akena/File Photo - D1AETDFGSOAA

Smart city initiatives in Africa

Eyerusalem Siba and Mariama Sow

Wednesday, November 1, 2017

Kenyan workers prepare men's underwear 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 - RC184951F090

Vers quelle transformation structurelle en Afrique?

Monday, October 30, 2017

Kenyan workers prepare men's underwear 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 - RC184951F090

Pathways to structural transformation in Africa

Monday, October 30, 2017

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley and President of Congo's electoral commission (CENI) Corneille Nangaa (C) addresses the media at the CENI headquarters in Gombe, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, October 27, 2017. REUTERS/Robert Carrubba - RC1216DDA670

Africa in the news: Kenya’s election re-run, Nikki Haley’s Africa trip, and South Africa’s budget troubles

Christina Golubski

Friday, October 27, 2017