Africa Growth Initiative

A slum dweller opens the door of a pay pit latrine in Kibera slum within Nairobi, Kenya February 27, 2019. Picture taken February 27, 2019. REUTERS/Njeri Mwangi

Figures of the week: Service delivery in Africa’s urban areas

Thursday, February 27, 2020

A fish seller waits to buy fresh product from fishermen at the port of Yoff in Dakar, Senegal February 14, 2019. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra

Figure of the week: Climate change and low-elevation coastal zones in Africa

Thursday, February 20, 2020

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo walks with Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed at the Prime Minister office after a meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia February 18, 2020. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/Pool via REUTERS

What will Pompeo’s trip mean for US policy toward Africa?

Witney Schneidman and Adrianna Pita

Wednesday, February 19, 2020

Demonstrators protest with placards against the ban of motorcycles and tricyles in Lagos, Nigeria February 8, 2020. REUTERS/Temilade Adelaja

Africa in the news: AU summit, Kenyatta meets with Trump, and Lagos bans motorcycles

Christina Golubski

Saturday, February 15, 2020

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo stands by as U.S. President Donald Trump delivers a statement on the conflict in Syria in the Diplomatic Room of the White House in Washington, U.S., October 23, 2019. REUTERS/Tom Brenner

Five ways Pompeo could revive Trump’s Africa strategy

Friday, February 14, 2020

Primary school students attend a class at school that uses a new unified Somali curriculum, at Banadir zone school in Mogadishu, Somalia September 22, 2019. Picture taken September 22, 2019.REUTERS/Feisal Omar

Figures of the week: Public spending on education in Africa

Thursday, February 13, 2020

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo departs Stansted Airport in Stansted, Britain, January 30, 2020. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/POOL

A conversation on Secretary Pompeo’s February 2020 trip to Africa

Addisu Lashitew, Ahmadou Aly Mbaye, Michael E. O’Hanlon, Witney Schneidman, and Christina Golubski

Tuesday, February 11, 2020

Understanding the drivers of inequality in Africa and implications for human development

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM EST

U.S. President Donald Trump points to the media as he walks with Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta before their meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on February 6, 2020. Photo by Yuri Gripas/ABACAPRESS.COM

Africa in the news: Updates on US-Africa relations, elections in Malawi and Guinea-Bissau, and return of stolen funds to Nigeria

Christina Golubski and Anna Schaeffer

Saturday, February 8, 2020

An illustrator works on a digital drawing board at the Kuluya Games office at Anthony district in Nigeria's commercial capital of Lagos June 16, 2014. Industry analysts have long hailed the explosive growth of mobile telecoms in sub-Saharan Africa - 635 million subscribers by the end of 2014 climbing to 930 million by the end of 2019 according to a report by Ericsson. But size isn't everything. It is the quality of those mobile phone connections, subscriptions and surrounding infrastructure that is holding up Africa's nascent games development industry, not the quantity of handsets. Picture taken June 16, 2014. REUTERS/Akintunde Akinleye (NIGERIA - Tags: SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY BUSINESS TELECOMS)

Shooting for the moon: An agenda to bridge Africa’s digital divide

Friday, February 7, 2020