Africa in Focus

Chadi Srour (in white shirt), technical director of real estate company Sipim, walks at a Sipim development site with his colleagues in Grand Bassam, Ivory Coast, September 15, 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 17 OF 33 FOR WIDER IMAGE STORY "IVORY COAST IS BOOMING". SEARCH "BOOMING PENNEY" FOR ALL IMAGES - RTX1SEEB

Point de vue prospectif sur l’Afrique: les potentiels obstacles à l’investissement à surveiller en 2017

Elizabeth Littlefield

Monday, March 6, 2017

A Women carries fire wood on her head as she walks below Eskom's Elecricity pylons in Soweto, South Africa. August 8,2016. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko - RTSMORN

Foresight Africa : participez à la conversation sur les priorités importante pour l’Afrique en 2017

Friday, March 3, 2017

A worker attends to a customer at an MTN shop at mall in Johannesburg, South Africa, March 2, 2017. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko - RTS1148T

Africa in the news: South Africa and Nigeria contend with xenophobic attacks, circulation of U.S. dollars in Zimbabwe declines, and CFTA Negotiating Forum kicks off

Friday, March 3, 2017

French President Francois Hollande (L) and Gambia's trade minister Abdoulie Jobe attend the Valletta Summit on Migration in Valletta, Malta, November 12, 2015. REUTERS/Darrin Zammit Lupi MALTA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN MALTA - RTS6LYH

Figures of the week: Assessing Africa-EU trade relations

Thursday, March 2, 2017

Cattle graze in Lake Naivasha, the only fresh water ecosystem in the eastern Rift Valley, June 4, 2009, which is drying up due to the drought and pollution caused by large-scale flower farming. World Environment Day (WED) 2009 will be commemorated June 5, under the theme "Your Planet Needs You, Unite to Combat Climate Change". WED is one of the principal vehicles through which the United Nations stimulates worldwide awareness of the environment and enhances political attention and action. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya (KENYA ENVIRONMENT SOCIETY ANIMALS) - RTR24A1C

Point de vue prospectif sur l’Afrique : des politiques à petite échelle, mais à grand impact pour lutter contre les changements climatiques en 2017

Ousseynou Nakoulima

Thursday, March 2, 2017

A teller serves a client with Kenya shilling notes at the cashier's booth of a forex exchange bureau in Kenya's capital Nairobi, April 20, 2016. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya - RTX2AV1P

East African institutional investors have strong unmet demand for regional investment funds

Jacqueline Irving

Thursday, March 2, 2017

A view of evening traffic near Kenya's Central Bank offices in capital Nairobi November 10, 2015. REUTERS/Noor Khamis/File photo - RTSQ1CG

Point de vue prospectif sur l’Afrique : pourquoi le renforcement des villes africaines doit-il occuper une place importante au niveau des décisions politiques et de l’élaboration de politiques ?

Thursday, March 2, 2017

People work on computers at the online store Jumia in Ikeja district, in Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos June 10, 2016.REUTERS/Akintunde Akinleye - RTX2IUNQ

Point de vue prospectif sur l’Afrique: les compétences requises dans un monde en évolution

Rebecca Winthrop and Eileen McGivney

Thursday, March 2, 2017

Farmers cover plants inside a Chinese farm as China's Minister of Agriculture Han Changfu visits the area for the Sudan-China Agriculture Cooperation Development Forum in Khartoum, Sudan September 24, 2016. REUTERS/Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah - RTSP86O

Point de vue prospectif sur l’Afrique: La science et l’agriculture

Thursday, March 2, 2017

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari walks form the stage after speaking at the U.S.-Africa Business Forum in New York, U.S., September 21, 2016. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque - RTSOT2E

Trump and Africa: Imagining a positive legacy

Witney Schneidman

Friday, February 24, 2017

People wait to receive food inside the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) Protection of Civilians site (PoC), near Bentiu, northern South Sudan, February 10, 2017. Picture taken February 10, 2017. REUTERS/Siegfried Modola - RTSZG0I

Africa in the news: South Sudan’s famine, South Africa’s rate-fixing scandal, and DRC’s investigation into recent massacre

Friday, February 24, 2017

A street trader counts out change for a customer in Durban, September 8, 2015. South Africa's rand firmed more than 1 percent against the dollar, recovering from record lows in the previous session as bets on a rate hike in United States faded due to worries over global growth. The rand rose 1.04 percent to 13.8150 per dollar. REUTERS/Rogan Ward - RTX1RMU4

Figures of the week: South Africa’s personal income tax rate

Thursday, February 23, 2017

Striking doctors hold placards and chant slogans outside the Court of Appeal as they wait for the release of jailed officials of the national doctors' union in their case to demand fulfilment of a 2013 agreement between their union and the government that would raise their pay and improve working conditions in Nairobi, Kenya, February 15, 2017. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya - RTSYQQ9

Africa in the news: Nigeria sells eurobond, Kenyan doctors continue to strike, and Trump contacts Nigeria and South Africa

Christina Golubski

Friday, February 17, 2017

A crop-eating armyworm is seen on a sorghum plant at a farm in Settlers, northern province of Limpopo, February 8,2017. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko - RTX30IWG

Figure of the week: Armyworm, locusts, and drought in Southern and East Africa

Thursday, February 16, 2017

South African Rand coins are seen in this photo illustration taken September 9, 2015. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings/File Photo GLOBAL BUSINESS WEEK AHEAD PACKAGE Ð SEARCH ÒBUSINESS WEEK AHEAD SEPTEMBER 19Ó FOR ALL IMAGES - RTSOCAM

AGI Markets Monitor: OPEC reaches oil deal, Mozambique defaults, and Nigeria manages its exchange rate

Amadou Sy and Amy Copley

Thursday, February 16, 2017