Africa in Focus

President Kagame of Rwanda discusses reforms to the African Union

Christina Golubski

Friday, September 29, 2017

Residents walk through shacks in Cape Town's crime-ridden Khayelitsha township in this picture taken July 9, 2012. At least 11 people have died at the hands of vigilantes in the township since January as angry residents, tired of poor policing, take the law into their own hands. Picture taken July 9, 2012. To match Feature SAFRICA-CRIME/ REUTERS/Mike Hutchings (SOUTH AFRICA - Tags: CRIME LAW) - GM1E87C1UFL01

Figures of the week: Diverging trends on income inequality in sub-Saharan Africa

Thursday, September 28, 2017

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

Africa in the news: UNGA updates, cocoa export challenges, and Kenya’s full Supreme Court ruling

Friday, September 22, 2017

Women work in Amingos fibre hair factory in Ikeja district in Lagos, December 1, 2011. REUTERS/Akintunde Akinleye(NIGERIA - Tags: SOCIETY BUSINESS) - GM1E7C203TF01

Figures of the week: Africa and the Global Human Capital Index

Friday, September 22, 2017

Kenyan workers prepare clothes for export at the Alltex export processing zone (EPZ) factory in Athi River, near the Kenyan capital Nairobi, July 31, 2009. Kenya's exports to the United States rose 8 percent to 20.6 billion shillings ($268 million) in 2008, largely due to U.S. legislation to promote African trade, Kenya's trade minister Amos Kimunya said. The U.S. African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) has granted duty-free access for many sub-Saharan African nations' products since 2000. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya (KENYA BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT) - GM1E57V1PAB01

Post-AGOA: Moving to a reciprocal US-Africa trade arrangement

Witney Schneidman and Moyombuya Ngubula

Tuesday, September 19, 2017

Passengers board a South African Airways the capital aircraft t the Hosea Kutako International Airport, outside Windhoek in Namibia, February 24, 2017. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko - RC1B88ACF170

Africa in the News: Tanzania seizes diamond shipment, Biafra separatists clash with Nigerian army, and South African Airways cuts flights

Friday, September 15, 2017

Construction workers direct a crane at the Radisson hotel site in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, September 12, 2015. From Abidjan’s packed airport arrivals hall to the buildings mushrooming across the capital, Ivory Coast is booming, a rare African bright spot as the world’s biggest cocoa producer bounces back from a 2011 civil war. Buyers of luxury apartments include Ivorians living overseas, while promoters from Morocco, Turkey and China are attracted by tax breaks. Elections - the source of national unrest four years ago - are due in a month but there is no let-up in investment given expectations of an easy victory for incumbent Alassane Ouattara. The government predicts 9.6 percent growth this year, making the former French colony the standout performer on a continent hammered by a slump in commodity prices, capital outflows and tumbling currencies. REUTERS/Joe PenneyPICTURE 14 OF 33 FOR WIDER IMAGE STORY "IVORY COAST IS BOOMING". SEARCH "BOOMING PENNEY" FOR ALL IMAGES - GF10000219116

Figures of the week: China’s rebalancing and African growth

Thursday, September 14, 2017

Opposition supporters walk along the street during the protest calling for the immediate resignation of President Faure Gnassingbe in Lome, Togo, September 7, 2017. REUTERS/Stringer - RC19F77FC770

Africa in the news: South Africa and Nigeria exit recession, Kenya prepares for election re-run, and Togo and Cameroon protest

Friday, September 8, 2017

An employee uses a money counting machine as she serves a customer inside a mobile phone care centre operated by Kenyan's telecom operator Safaricom; in the central business district of Kenya's capital Nairobi, May 11, 2016. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya - RTX2DU5T

Figures of the week: New findings in African financial and digital inclusion

Friday, September 8, 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

Spillover of Fed policy normalization to emerging market and developing economies: The case for optimism

Brahima Sangafowa Coulibaly

Wednesday, September 6, 2017

Kenyan Supreme Court judges arrive for a hearing of a petition challenging the election result filed by the National Super Alliance (NASA) coalition and Human Rights groups at the Supreme Court in Nairobi, Kenya August 28, 2017. REUTERS/Baz Ratner - RC17EBD239E0

Kenya: Presidential elections and the rule of law

John Mukum Mbaku

Wednesday, September 6, 2017

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

Africa in the news: Kenya election annulled, EU-Africa migration summit, and Nigerian oil leadership shakeup

Christina Golubski

Friday, September 1, 2017

People walk through the streets of a shopping area in Addis Ababa May 26, 2014. Ethiopia has pushed the door ajar for foreign retailers keen to enter the fast-growing market of 90 million people, welcoming them as managers but keeping the state in control. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri (ETHIOPIA - Tags: BUSINESS) - GM1EA5R05A501

Figure of the week: Urbanization, poverty, and social protection in East Africa

Moyombuya Ngubula

Friday, September 1, 2017

Supporters cheer as Joao Lourenco, presidential candidate for the ruling MPLA party, speaks at an election rally in Malanje, Angola, August 17, 2017. Picture taken August 17, 2017. REUTERS/Stephen Eisenhammer FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RTS1CB66

Africa in the news: Angola votes, Glencore mining operations slowed in Zambia over power dispute, and Power Africa progress report released

Friday, August 25, 2017

A woman works in a plantation of rubber seedlings in San Pedro March 9, 2012. The acrid smell of rubber is the smell of money, say the farmers of the Ivory Coast, the world's top cocoa producer, who are felling their aging cocoa trees to plant the hot new crop. Picture taken March 9, 2012. REUTERS/Thierry Gouegnon (IVORY COAST - Tags: BUSINESS COMMODITIES AGRICULTURE) - RTR2ZFWD

Figures of the Week: Employment and labor productivity in Côte d’Ivoire

Wednesday, August 23, 2017