Sub-Saharan Africa

Women workers inspect shoes at a Bata shoe factory in Abuja, Nigeria January 13, 2020. Picture taken January 13, 2020. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde

Figure of the week: The AfCFTA’s effects on trade and wages in Africa

Wednesday, September 2, 2020

DAKAR, SENEGAL - APR 23, 2017: Unidentified Senegalese people stand in front of the truck at the port of Dakar, the capital of Senegal

Removing impediments to export-led growth in Senegal: Groundnuts, fishing, textiles, fruits, and vegetables

Stephen Golub and Ahmadou Aly Mbaye

Tuesday, September 1, 2020

School child wearing mask

Adapting to learning needs in the wake of COVID-19 using data and evidence

Molly Curtiss Wyss

Tuesday, August 11, 2020

Ayak Chol Deng, 31, an epidemiologist, spoken word poet, activist, and a founding member of Ana Taban, poses for a photograph at her home in Juba, South Sudan, April 20, 2017. Deng was born in a refugee camp in Gambela, briefly lived in Cuba as a child, and then studied and lived in Kharoum, Sudan and Nairobi, Kenya. She is divorced and a mother of three. "I hope for better serviced institutions, better opportunities for youth, a country where I don't need to be from a specific tribe," said Deng. In one of her poems, she writes: "Heal this spirit that's broken, piece together pieces of me, my affiliation, or tongue, colour, politics, restore what’s human in me, peace, come find me, enrich this fist choking, un-taint my disputes, resonating, unhinge my words, elevating, unleash a conciliation, everlasting, peace, come find me." REUTERS/Andreea Campeanu SEARCH "CAMPEANU ANA TABAN" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES.

Taking distance learning ‘offline’: Lessons learned from navigating the digital divide during COVID-19

Angelica Towne Amporo and Hawah Nabbuye

Friday, August 7, 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

Leveraging the employment potential of industries without smokestacks

Brahima Sangafowa Coulibaly

Wednesday, August 5, 2020

Zaki El-Dine, 24, a brick-maker, pours water from the Nile river onto a patch of mud to make bricks on Tuti Island, Khartoum, Sudan, February 12, 2020. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra SEARCH "BENSEMRA NILE" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES.

The controversy over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam

John Mukum Mbaku

Wednesday, August 5, 2020

Books on a shelf

A social distancing reading list from the Brookings Africa Growth Initiative

Louise Fox, Lemma Senbet, Landry Signé, Amadou Sy, and Christina Golubski

Tuesday, August 4, 2020

FILE PHOTO: Somalia's Prime Minister Hassan Ali Khaire addresses the Parliament seating where he was confirmed in Somalia's capital Mogadishu March 1, 2017. REUTERS/Feisal Omar/File Photo

Africa in the news: New funding to fight COVID-19 in Africa, Somalia’s prime minister voted out, and political updates in Mali and Côte d’Ivoire

Christina Golubski and Chris Heitzig

Saturday, August 1, 2020

Unidentified fisherman counting money and trading fish on December 24, 2014 in a traditional fishing village at Lake Victoria, Kenya

Figures of the week: Regional heterogeneity in Africa’s economic growth predicted to subside

David Kanos and Chris Heitzig

Thursday, July 30, 2020

ASEAN and member state flags

Two lessons from ASEAN for regional integration in Africa

Souleymane Coulibaly

Wednesday, July 29, 2020