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Somalia's Supreme Court Chairman Baashe Yusuf Ahmed swears in new prime minister Mohamed Hussein Roble in front of Somali parliament members in Mogadishu, Somalia September 23, 2020. REUTERS/Feisal Omar

Africa in Focus

Africa in the news: Zambia’s debt, Kenya’s parliament and trade, and politics in the Horn of Africa

Payce Madden

Saturday, September 26, 2020

Sudanese protesters march in a demonstration to mark the anniversary of a transitional power-sharing deal with demands for quicker political reforms in Khartoum, Sudan August 17, 2020. REUTERS/Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah

Order from Chaos

Normalizing Sudan-Israel relations now is a dangerous game

Payton Knopf and Jeffrey Feltman

Thursday, September 24, 2020

Cargo ship at the Port of Mombasa in Kenya

Future Development

US-Africa trade relations: Why is AGOA better than a bilateral free trade agreement?

Gracelin Baskaran

Thursday, September 24, 2020

Vocational training in Johannesburg, South Africa

Africa in Focus

Figure of the week: Supply-side interventions alone cannot solve Africa’s missing jobs problem

Chris Heitzig

Thursday, September 24, 2020

Reports

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

Report

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

Report

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

Andrew Mold and Anthony Mveyange

Thursday, July 9, 2020

A fruit seller is seen in a market amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Adjame a neighbourhood of Abidjan, Ivory Coast June 18, 2020. REUTERS/Thierry Gouegnon.

Report

The informal sector in francophone Africa: The other side of weak structural transformation

Nancy Benjamin and Ahmadou Aly Mbaye

Tuesday, July 7, 2020

An employee of tech start-up Sendy, which offers online logistics services, works on her computer at their office in Nairobi, Kenya, October 30, 2018. Picture taken October 30, 2018. REUTERS/Baz Ratner

Report

Employment creation potential, labor skills requirements, and skill gaps for young people: A methodological framework

Haroon Bhorat, Caitlin Allen, Zaakhir Asmal, Robert Hill, and Christopher Rooney

Wednesday, March 4, 2020

Blog Posts

FILE PHOTO: Colonel Malick Diaw, one of the junta leaders of the National Committee for the Salvation of the People (CNSP), which overthrew Mali's President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita,attends a meeting with representatives of political parties and civil society groups to discuss forming a transitional government in Bamako, Mali September 5, 2020. REUTERS/Moussa Kalapo NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES./File Photo

Africa in Focus

Africa in the news: Updates on politics in Côte d’Ivoire and Mali, oil management, and COVID-19

Christina Golubski

Saturday, September 19, 2020

--FILE--View of a signboard of ICBC (Industrial and Commercial Bank of China) in Xuchang city, central China's Henan province, 22 May 2016.The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), the world's biggest in terms of capital and deposit, on Thursday voiced its readiness to continue its "all-round" financial services for "Belt and Road" projects. "ICBC is keen and active in promoting the Belt and Road Initiative," said Gu Shu, ICBC's senior executive vice president. The initiative, which comprises the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road, is aiming at building a trade and infrastructure network connecting Asia with Europe and Africa along the ancient Silk Road routes. "ICBC has 123 branches in 18 countries along the Belt and Road, making it the Chinese financial institution that covers the most countries along the route," Gu said. "ICBC has been actively providing all-round and integrated financial services for 'Belt and Road' projects," he added. "So far, ICBC has operated 208 projects along the route, with a combined investment of 220.8 billion U.S. dollars." Gu was in Istanbul for the first anniversary of the inauguration of ICBC Turkey, which was established after ICBC purchased a majority of shares of Turkey's Tekstilbank in May last year.No Use China. No Use France.

Order from Chaos

How US-China tensions could hamper development efforts

Bruce Jones

Thursday, September 17, 2020

South Africa - Durban - 15 June 2020 - Zethembe Langa (owner, 34) with his assistant Dumani Jili (blue uniform) are young pig farmers just ouside Pinetown, KwaZulu-Natal. He started his business this year 2020 and has a few butcheries as his clients. Photo by Bongani Mbatha/African News Agency(ANA) /RealTime Images/ABACAPRESS.COMNo Use South Africa.

Africa in Focus

Easy meat: The case of the pork industry in South Africa

Christopher Rooney

Thursday, September 17, 2020

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