Sub-Saharan Africa

Members of a heritage tour group, who are traveling to Ghana to explore their ancestral roots, look at a mobile phone outside the palace of Nana Boakye Yam Ababio II, Chief of Nkwantakese, in Ashanti region, Ghana August 10, 2019. Picture taken August 10, 2019. REUTERS/Francis Kokoroko - RC1775814300

Figure of the week: Africa’s growing mobile economy

Thursday, September 26, 2019

A construction worker is seen at a distance in a section of Ethiopia's Grand Renaissance Dam, as it undergoes construction, during a media tour along the river Nile in Benishangul Gumuz Region, Guba Woreda, in Ethiopia March 31, 2015. According to a government official, the dam has hit the 41 percent completion mark. Picture taken March 31, 2015. REUTER/Tiksa Negeri - GF10000046011

Africa in the news: Disagreement over the Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, Rwanda-Uganda dispute talks

Saturday, September 21, 2019

A mourner holds a poster of Robert Mugabe during the viewing of his body

Africa in the news: SACU-UK trade agreement, Nigeria’s border closures, and Sudan’s transitional government

Christina Golubski

Saturday, September 14, 2019

A woman hawks merchandise past transit trucks at Mpondwe border that separates Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, in Mpondwe, Uganda, June 14, 2019. REUTERS/James Akena - RC1ADF153830

The AfCFTA: The first step of a long marathon

Angelle B. Kwemo

Tuesday, September 3, 2019

Dr. Christelle Azier-Pohoun of BIO-MEDICAL, a center that provides medical visits for people who pass the driver's license, speaks to a patient during a consultation in Abidjan, March 28, 2019. REUTERS/Thierry Gouegnon. - RC1BC64E9F30

Health in Africa: 5 priorities for the G-7 Biarritz Summit

Monday, August 19, 2019

Children wait for the arrival of Belgium's King Albert II at the Belgian School in Kinshasa June 29, 2010. Belgian King Albert II is on a three-day official visit to Congo to attend the celebrations of the 50th anniversary of independence. REUTERS/Frederic Sierakowski/Pool (DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO - Tags: POLITICS) - GM1E66U00ND01

Integrating 21st century skills in the classroom in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Helyn Kim, Jovin Mukadi Tsangala, Walid Hedidar, and Esther Care

Wednesday, August 14, 2019

Children are pictured during a visit by U.S. First Lady Melania Trump to a school in Lilongwe, Malawi, October 4, 2018. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri - RC1AD44180E0

Four key approaches to scaling community schools in Zambia

Barbara Chilangwa

Thursday, August 8, 2019

A customer uses her cell-phone to access the Sidian Bank mobile-app inside the banking hall at the Sidian Bank headquarters on the outskirts of Kenya's capital Nairobi

Figure of the week: Taxing mobile transactions in Kenya

Wednesday, August 7, 2019

Names of missing Chibok school girls kidnapped by Boko Haram insurgency five years ago are displayed during the 5th year anniversary of their abduction, in Abuja, Nigeria April 14, 2019. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde - RC19E45DE390

Beneath the Tamarind Tree: Nigeria and the resilience of the Chibok Girls

Christina Golubski

Tuesday, August 6, 2019

U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi poses for a photograph after presenting a gift to Paramount Chief of Cape Coast traditional area, Osabarima Kwesi Atta II, during her visit to a palace used by the Chief after her tour at the Cape Coast Castle which was used as a trading post from where slaves would be taken to America, in Ghana July 30, 2019. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko - RC14F026AA40

Africa in the news: Mauritania’s new President Ghazouani, Mozambique’s peace deal, and Pelosi and US delegation’s visit to Ghana

Saturday, August 3, 2019