Sub-Saharan Africa

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 focus

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

Dhruv Gandhi

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

Africa in focus

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

Mariama Sow

Friday, September 22, 2017

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Kenya elections: What voided results mean, and next steps for the country

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African Development Bank (AfDB) President Akinwumi Adesina addresses the audience during the inauguration ceremony of the Annual General Meeting of AfDB bank in Gandhinagar, India May 23, 2017. REUTERS/Amit Dave - RC1BE6744E00

Future Development

Will less concessional development assistance for Africa cause another debt crisis?

Luisa Teixeira Felino and Brian Pinto

Thursday, September 21, 2017

Reports

Early Childhood Education

SECT: The standardized early childhood development costing tool

Emily Gustafsson-Wright, Izzy Boggild-Jones, and Sophie Gardiner

Tuesday, September 5, 2017

A mine shaft is seen at the Tumela Mine , an Anglo American open pit mine located in the north-western part of South Africa in Thabazimbi, Limpopo province,June 9,2016. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko - RTX2FWX5

Global Development

Closing the financing gap for African energy infrastructure: Trends, challenges, and opportunities

Amadou Sy and Amy Copley

April 17, 2017

Labourers work to reconstruct part of the Marina road in Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos June 17, 2016.REUTERS/Akintunde Akinleye - RTX2GUQR

Global Development

Leveraging African pension funds for financing infrastructure development

Amadou Sy

Tuesday, March 14, 2017

Developing Economies

Les pays exportateurs de pétrole en Afrique subsaharienne

Amadou Sy

Friday, March 3, 2017

Global Governance & Politics

Leçons à tirer des crises récentes en Afrique de l’ouest : solutions locales en matière de gouvernance et de société civile

Mike Jobbins

Friday, March 3, 2017

Blog Posts

Children at Mashimoni School in Kibera peer through a classroom window of a building that was marked with a red cross in preparation for demolition in Nairobi, Kenya, September 23, 2016. Picture taken September 23, 2016. THOMSON REUTERS FOUNDATION/Katy Migiro TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - D1AEUGJDWBAB

Future Development

Schools don’t track their alumni very well. In Kenya, it matters

Eric M. Johnson

Tuesday, September 19, 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

Africa in focus

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

Witney Schneidman and Moyombuya Ngubula

Tuesday, September 19, 2017

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Future Development

Future Development Reads: Apple’s new iPhone, drone delivery in Rwanda, and politics heating up in Europe

Wolfgang Fengler

Friday, September 15, 2017

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The evolving US diplomatic and foreign aid budget: What do these changes mean for Africa?

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Addressing famine, peacekeeping, and insecurity in Africa

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Experts

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Multimedia

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Global Development

Is Africa still rising?

Brahima Sangafowa Coulibaly and Fred Dews

Friday, May 26, 2017

Women carry food supplement received from World Food Programme (WFP) at the Banki IDP camp, in Borno, Nigeria April 26, 2017. Picture taken April 26, 2017. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde - RTS14ZP0

Order from Chaos

Experts offer ideas for dealing with insecurity in Africa

Ian Livingston

Thursday, May 25, 2017

Storm clouds hover as a cyclist rides past a field of maize after late rains near Malawi's capital Lilongwe, February 1, 2016. Late rains in Malawi threaten the staple maize crop and have pushed prices to record highs.About 14 million people face hunger in Southern Africa because of a drought that has been exacerbated by an El Nino weather pattern, according to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). REUTERS/Mike Hutchings - RTX24Z7D

Africa in focus

Le tonnerre n’est pas toujours suivi de la pluie : Maintenir le progrès vers la réalisation de la vision pour l’Afrique

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Sub-Saharan Africa

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

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

Kenya elections: What voided results mean, and next steps for the country

Will less concessional development assistance for Africa cause another debt crisis?

Reports

SECT: The standardized early childhood development costing tool

Closing the financing gap for African energy infrastructure: Trends, challenges, and opportunities

Leveraging African pension funds for financing infrastructure development

Les pays exportateurs de pétrole en Afrique subsaharienne

Leçons à tirer des crises récentes en Afrique de l’ouest : solutions locales en matière de gouvernance et de société civile

Blog Posts

Schools don’t track their alumni very well. In Kenya, it matters

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

Future Development Reads: Apple’s new iPhone, drone delivery in Rwanda, and politics heating up in Europe

Events

What elections in Kenya mean for the country, the continent, and the world

The evolving US diplomatic and foreign aid budget: What do these changes mean for Africa?

Addressing famine, peacekeeping, and insecurity in Africa

Related Books

Africa’s Lions

Made in Africa

Oil in Uganda

Experts

Amadou Sy

Nonresident Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development, Africa Growth Initiative

Witney Schneidman

Nonresident Fellow - Global Economy and Development, Africa Growth Initiative

Multimedia

Is Africa still rising?

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Le tonnerre n’est pas toujours suivi de la pluie : Maintenir le progrès vers la réalisation de la vision pour l’Afrique

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