Sub-Saharan Africa

A man casts his vote at a polling station during Ghana's presidential and parliamentary elections in Kyebi, Ghana December 7, 2020. REUTERS/Francis Kokoroko

Africa in the news: Elections in Ghana, US relations with Somalia and Morocco, and trade in East Africa

Saturday, December 12, 2020

Solar panels on the roof of a school in Guinea

Lessons from the proliferating mini-grid incentive programs in Africa

Jonathan Phillips, Benjamin Attia, and Victoria Plutshack

Friday, December 11, 2020

South Africa - Durban - 26 July 2020 - With the flea market closed, hawkers have taken to selling on the street to make ends meet. The women and men say that although they do not make as much money as they used to before what they do make is sufficientfor them to get by. Thembi Mbonambi of Maphephethweni. Photo by Bongani Mbatha/African News Agency/RealTime images/ABACAPRESS.COMNo Use South Africa out.

Figure of the week: Sub-Saharan Africa shows resilience to the effects of COVID-19, according to high-frequency phone surveys

Friday, December 11, 2020

Container ships wait to load and offload goods in port during a 21-day nationwide lockdown aimed at limiting the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Cape Town, South Africa, April 17, 2020. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings

How to reignite Africa’s growth and avoid the need for future debt jubilee

Rabah Arezki and Aitor Erce

Tuesday, December 8, 2020

Insecurity in northeast Nigeria and beyond

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM EST

Vials of AstraZeneca's COVISHIELD, coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine, are seen before they are packaged inside a lab at Serum Institute of India, Pune, India, November 30, 2020. Picture taken November 30, 2020. REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas

Africa in the news: COVID-19 vaccine, Ethiopia, and Burkina Faso updates

Saturday, December 5, 2020

Lagos, Nigeria.- In the photos, it shows the streets of the city of Lagos during the coronavirus pandemic. The World Health Organization (WHO) highlighted the fact that Africa has managed to prevent the "exponential spread" of the novel coronavirus epidemic on the continent. "The transmission of covid-19 in Africa has been characterized by a relatively lower number of infections, which has decreased in the last two months," said the WHO regional leadership.

Figure of the week: Socioeconomic impacts of COVID-19 in Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, and Uganda

Wednesday, December 2, 2020

Ethiopians who have just crossed a river from Ethiopia to Sudan to flee from the Tigray region, walk towards the Hamdeyat refugees transit camp, which houses refugees fleeing the fighting, on the border in Sudan, December 1, 2020. REUTERS/Baz Ratner TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

Tigray: New deadline to surrender lapses on Friday

Friday, November 27, 2020

Crisis in Ethiopia and its regional repercussions

10:00 AM - 11:30 AM EST

Sheik Muktar Robow Abu Mansur (2nd R), spokesman of Somalia's Islamic al-Shabab, leaves a news conference after vowing to step up attacks against government soldiers and foreign troops in Mogadishu December 14, 2008. Somalia's President Abdullahi Yusuf sacked his prime minister on Sunday after they disagreed on a new cabinet demanded by donors, throwing his Western-backed interim government into disarray. Hassan Hussein Nur Adde was the second premier fired by Yusuf and had been in the job for only about a year. The fragile administration is fighting Islamist rebels who control the south and are camped on the outskirts of the capital Mogadishu. REUTERS/Feisal Omar (SOMALIA)

Facing elections and a potential US troop withdrawal, risks to Somalia’s security abound

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Monday, November 23, 2020