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An election official shows a ballot after polling stations closed during the presidential elections in Kampala, Uganda, January 14, 2021. REUTERS/Baz Ratner

Africa in Focus

Africa in the news: Central African Republic, Ethiopia, and Uganda updates

Chris Heitzig

Saturday, January 16, 2021

Men work at a containers terminal in Abidjan April 3, 2008. REUTERS/Luc Gnago (IVORY COAST)

Africa in Focus

Figure of the week: Momentum in trade going into the AfCFTA era

Chris Heitzig and Aloysius Uche Ordu

Thursday, January 14, 2021

Durban, South Africa - 15 August, 2012 - a woman works picking cucumbers in a farm greenhouse.

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Employment creation potential, labor skills requirements, and skill gaps for young people: A South African case study

Caitlin Allen, Zaakhir Asmal, Haroon Bhorat, Robert Hill, Jabulile Monnakgotla, Morné Oosthuizen, and Christopher Rooney

Tuesday, January 12, 2021

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A man sorts oranges inside a truck at the end of a night-long curfew ordered by Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta to slow the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Nairobi, Kenya March 29, 2020. REUTERS/Njeri Mwangi

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Making the AfCFTA work for ‘The Africa We Want’

Hippolyte Fofack

Monday, December 28, 2020

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Urban economic growth in Africa: A framework for analyzing constraints to agglomeration

John Page, Jeffrey Gutman, Payce Madden, and Dhruv Gandhi

Tuesday, September 29, 2020

Johannesburg, South Africa - September 7 2016: Industrial Valve Manufacturing and Assembly Factory Facility

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Africa’s ‘youth employment’ crisis is actually a ‘missing jobs’ crisis

Louise Fox, Philip Mader, James Sumberg, Justin Flynn, and Marjoke Oosterom

Tuesday, September 8, 2020

Factory officials take samples of cocoa beans at a cocoa processing factory in Ile-Oluji village in Ondo state, southwest Nigeria March 29, 2016. Picture taken March 29, 2016. REUTERS/Akintunde Akinleye - GF10000374278

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Leveraging the employment potential of industries without smokestacks

Brahima Sangafowa Coulibaly

Wednesday, August 5, 2020

Truck drivers wait near their parked vehicles for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) test results at the Namanga one stop border crossing point between Kenya and Tanzania, in Namanga, Kenya May 12, 2020. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya

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The impact of the COVID-19 crisis on trade: Recent evidence from East Africa

Andrew Mold and Anthony Mveyange

Thursday, July 9, 2020

Blog Posts

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.- In the photo, a specialist works in a clinical laboratory amid the pandemic in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Less affected by covid-19 than the rest of the continents, Africa begins a race for the vaccine. The continent hopes to vaccinate "3% of Africans between now and March 2021 and 20% by the end of next year," declared the regional director of the World Health Organization (WHO), Matshidiso Moeti, in Brazzaville.

Africa in Focus

Africa in the news: AfCFTA launches, Africa secures COVID-19 vaccines, and Niger and the Central African Republic vote

Chris Heitzig

Saturday, January 9, 2021

Abuja, Federal Capital Territory Nigeria. December 35, 2018: A cross section of Wuse Market Abuja

Africa in Focus

Figure of the week: Perceptions of the AfCFTA among small enterprises in Nigeria

Payce Madden

Wednesday, January 6, 2021

A woman wearing a protective face mask shops at Chic Shops supermarket, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak at Adjame, a neighbourhood of Abidjan, Ivory Coast May 28, 2020. REUTERS/Thierry Gouegnon

Africa in Focus

Africa Growth Initiative’s top 5 figures of 2020

Chris Heitzig

Wednesday, December 30, 2020

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