Sub-Saharan Africa

A pupil, wearing a protective mask, writes on a classroom chalkboard at the Merlan school of Paillet during the reopening of schools, as the lockdown due to coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is eased, in Abidjan, Ivory Coast May 25, 2020. REUTERS/Luc Gnago

Education is crucial to Africa’s COVID-19 response

Jean-Marc Bernard, Brahima Sangafowa Coulibaly, and Rebecca Winthrop

Thursday, June 4, 2020

Seven year old Barack Obama, named after U.S. President Barack Obama distributes books to his classmates at the Senator Obama primary school in Nyangoma village in Kogelo west of Kenya's capital Nairobi, July 16, 2015. Obama visits Kenya and Ethiopia in July, his third major trip to Sub-Saharan Africa after travelling to Ghana in 2009 and to Tanzania, Senegal and South Africa in 2011. He has also visited Egypt, in North Africa, and South Africa for Nelson Mandela's funeral. Obama will be welcomed by a continent that had expected closer attention from a man they claim as their son, a sentiment felt acutely in the Kenyan village where the 44th U.S. president's father is buried. Picture taken July 16, 2015. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya

Learning in East Africa: Where are children advancing

Katharina Fenz, Kristofer Hamel, and Baldwin Tong

Thursday, May 28, 2020

An employee closes coffee bags at the Central Kenya Coffee Mill near Nyeri, Kenya, March 15, 2018. Picture taken March 15, 2018. REUTERS/Baz Ratner

Industries without smokestacks: Constraints to growth

Thursday, May 28, 2020

Trucks queue as their drivers undergo health screening, amid the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak at the Namanga one stop border crossing point between Kenya and Tanzania in Namanga, Kenya, May 12, 2020. Picture taken May 12, 2020. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya

Figures of the week: Regional integration in Africa

Wednesday, May 27, 2020

A vegetables seller waits for customers at Bara taxi rank, during a nationwide lockdown, aimed at limiting the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Soweto, South Africa, April 23,2020. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko

COVID-19 and the future of work in Africa: How to shore up incomes for informal sector workers

Louise Fox and Landry Signé

Tuesday, May 26, 2020

Members of the Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI) lift empty ballot boxes at a voting station during the Presidential, Legislative and Communal council elections, under the simmering political violence and the growing threat of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) spread, in Gitega, Burundi May 20, 2020. REUTERS/Evrard Ngendakumana

Africa in the news: Burundi, Benin, South Sudan, and COVID-19 updates

Christina Golubski

Saturday, May 23, 2020

Sap oozes from poppies after they are scratched, a process to get opium from poppies, in a village outside Balkh province, about 500 km (310 miles) north of Kabul May 6, 2006. The illegal narcotics trade dominates Afghanistan's economy, accounting for 60 percent of its gross domestic product and 87 percent of the world's supply. Heroin and morphine are derived from opium, which comes from poppies. REUTERS/Ahmad Masood

Heroin’s journey during COVID

Vanda Felbab-Brown, Jack Meegan-Vickers, Tariq M. Khosa, Ben Crabtree, Jason Eligh, and Simone Haysom

The Impact

Friday, May 22, 2020

A worker is seen sampling packaged phosphate at a packing warehouse at the Dorowa mine in Hwedza, Zimbabwe October 22, 2019. REUTERS/Philimon Bulawayo

The African Continental Free Trade Area and measures to facilitate trade could significantly mitigate COVID-19’s economic impact in Africa

Nassim Oulmane, Mustapha Sadni Jallab, and Patrice Rélouendé Zidouemba

Friday, May 22, 2020

A nurse attends to a child suffering from effects of drinking contaminated water from a well, at a hospital in Yaqshid district in Somalia's capital Mogadishu December 13, 2014. REUTERS/Feisal Omar (SOMALIA - Tags: FOOD HEALTH SOCIETY)

Figures of the week: Perceptions of health in sub-Saharan Africa before the pandemic

Thursday, May 21, 2020

Employees inspect the production of hand sanitizers in Cormart factory as the company steps up production of hand sanitizers to prevent the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), on the outskirts of Lagos, Nigeria March 19, 2020. Picture taken March 19, 2020. REUTERS/Temilade Adelaja

COVID-19 and the future of work in Africa: How to reduce income loss for formal sector employees

Louise Fox and Landry Signé

Thursday, May 21, 2020