Africa in Focus

Areva's Somair uranium mining facility is seen in Arlit, September 25, 2013. Picture taken September 25, 2013. To match Special Report NIGER-AREVA/ REUTERS/Joe Penney (NIGER - Tags: BUSINESS COMMODITIES ENERGY) - GM1EA240B3A01

Figures of the week: Financial modeling and Africa’s extractive industries

Thursday, October 26, 2017

Addressing the mismatch between food and nutrition policies and needs in Tanzania

Roselyne Alphonce

Thursday, October 26, 2017

Children displaced as a result of Boko Haram attacks in the northeast region of Nigeria, sit in a row to eat a meal at a camp for internally displaced persons (IDP) in Yola, Adamawa State January 13, 2015. Boko Haram says it is building an Islamic state that will revive the glory days of northern Nigeria's medieval Muslim empires, but for those in its territory life is a litany of killings, kidnappings, hunger and economic collapse. Picture taken January 13. To match Insight NIGERIA-BOKOHARAM/ REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde (NIGERIA - Tags: CIVIL UNREST FOOD SOCIETY) - GM1EB1K0Z5N01

Effective resource management for improved food and nutrition security in Nigeria

Aderibigbe S. Olomola

Monday, October 23, 2017

Protesters chant slogans while demonstrating against last weekend's explosion in KM4 street in the Hodan district in Mogadishu, Somalia October 18, 2017. REUTERS/Feisal Omar - RC1A7515A8D0

Africa in the news: Terror attack in Somalia, election concerns in Kenya, and Rio Tinto’s fraud charge in Mozambique

Friday, October 20, 2017

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

Figures of the week: Workforce training and skills constraints in sub-Saharan Africa

Thursday, October 19, 2017

Boys carry sacks of weeds through fields of rice on the outskirts of Richard Toll town June 3, 2008. Senegal wants to transform this baking hot valley into a rice bowl for Africa but farmers scrabbling in the dirt with hand-made hoes say the grand plan will take more than fine words from the president. Picture taken June 3, 2008. REUTERS/Normand Blouin (SENEGAL) - GM1E4641EU501

Reducing economic and environmental vulnerability to achieve food and nutrition security in Senegal

Ibrahima Hathie, Boubacar Seydi, Lamine Samaké, and Suwadu Sakho-Jimbira

Wednesday, October 18, 2017

Hawa Nakawungu, a coffee farmer sprays her trees with pesticide on her farm near Uganda's capital Kampala, July 18, 2009. Nakawungu cut a space-age figure as she paced around her tiny coffee farm, squirting pesticide from a yellow pump mounted on her back. REUTERS/Hereward Holland (UGANDA ENVIRONMENT FOOD) - GM1E597186D01

Strategies to raise agricultural productivity, address gender inequalities, and reduce rural poverty in Uganda

Gracious M. Diiro

Monday, October 16, 2017

Women walk past tomatoes displayed for sale in baskets along the kano-Zaria road in Kano, northwest Nigeria August 21, 2017. Picture taken August 21, 2017. REUTERS/Akintunde Akinleye. - RC1B78CDB380

The quest for food security and agricultural transformation in Africa: Is the CAADP the answer?

Monday, October 16, 2017

A supporter of Kenyan opposition National Super Alliance (NASA) coalition, carries a banner depicting Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga during a protest along a street in Nairobi, Kenya, October 11, 2017. REUTERS/Baz Ratner - RC18EBAB39B0

Africa in the news: Kenya election update, Boko Haram trials, and Tanzania’s controversial business regulations

Friday, October 13, 2017

Heads of states and governments pose for a group photo during the opening ceremony of the 29th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the Heads of State and the Governments in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia July 3, 2017. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri - RC1318C54750

Innovate or fail: The options open to Africa for implementing the SDGs and Agenda 2063

Friday, October 13, 2017

A man helps a girl cross a log bridge after the flash flood washed away the concrete bridge at Pentagon, in Freetown, Sierra Leone August 18, 2017. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde - RC1BB1FE6700

Figures of the week: IMF predicts a pickup in global and sub-Saharan African growth, though warns of climate change threats

Thursday, October 12, 2017

A thermosolar power plant is pictured at Noor II near the city of Ouarzazate, Morocco, November 4, 2016. Picture taken November 4, 2016. REUTERS/Youssef Boudlal - S1AEULCGPVAC

Building the grid of the future, today

Tuesday, October 10, 2017

Women from a local cocoa farmers association called BLAYEYA spread cocoa beans to dry in Djangobo, Niable in eastern Ivory Coast, November 17, 2014. REUTERS/Thierry Gouegnon/File Photo - D1AETIWRMRAA

Africa in the news: Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana set cocoa prices, emerging powers seek to expand influence in Africa, and health officials pledge to end cholera

Friday, October 6, 2017

Muslim girls participate in a mathematics class at Al-Haramain madrassa at the Islamic Complex in Cameroon's capital Yaounde, one day before a visit to the city by Pope Benedict XVI, March 16, 2009. Pope Benedict this week makes his first trip to Africa, starting in Yaounde on Tuesday. In many places in Africa, including Cameroon, Catholicism and Islam are fighting for souls. In Cameroon, which has a significant Muslim population, the pope is expected to meet with Muslim clerics. Elsewhere in Africa, the church is increasingly worried about losing ground to charismatic Pentecostal churches. REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly (CAMEROON EDUCATION SOCIETY RELIGION) - GM1E53G1NIL01

Figures of the week: Africa, education, and the 2018 World Development Report

Friday, October 6, 2017

A street fruit vendor counts his bond notes in Harare, Zimbabwe, August 2, 2017. REUTERS/Philimon Bulawayo - RC19CFAB5F70

Africa in the news: French bank accused of genocide complicity, Zimbabwe suffers cash shortage, and Chad ‘bafflingly’ added to US travel ban list

Christina Golubski

Friday, September 29, 2017