West Africa

A member of forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad stands with a civilian on the rubble of the Carlton Hotel, in the government controlled area of Aleppo, Syria December 17, 2016. REUTERS/Omar Sanadiki - RC181701B570

Peacekeeping & Conflict Management

Managing the new threat landscape

Bruce Jones, Charles T. Call, Daniel Toubolets, and Jason Fritz

September 2018

Mary Adhiambo, dries her maize in the sun outside her house in the U.S. President Barack Obama's ancestral village of Nyang'oma Kogelo, west of Kenya's capital Nairobi, July 15, 2015. Adhiambi, 25, said they benefited from Barack Obama's Presidency as they have well tarmacked roads and electricity was connected to the village. "We received grants to build houses and shelter from the harsh weather as an indirect benefit from President Obama's leadership" she said. President 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 15, 2015. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya - GF10000168062

Africa in focus

Figures of the week: Female property ownership in sub-Saharan Africa

Friday, September 14, 2018

Examining the health of democracy across Africa

9:30 AM - 11:30 AM EDT

Congolese soldiers from the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (FARDC) rest in Namoya, Maniema Province, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, April 29, 2018. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic - RC1436F67280

Middle East & North Africa

The state of African security: No longer all about bad news

Michael E. O’Hanlon and Namarig Kram

Monday, August 6, 2018

Reports

A currency dealer counts Moroccan dirhams in a photo illustration at a currency exchange in Casablanca, Morocco, June 29, 2017. Picture taken June 29, 2017. REUTERS/Youssef Boudlal/Illustration - RC138B2B0ED0

Emerging Markets

AGI Markets Monitor: July 2018 update

Amadou Sy and Amy Copley

Friday, July 27, 2018

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Crime & Criminal Justice

Designing pan-Atlantic and international anti-crime cooperation

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Sunday, March 1, 2015

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Afghanistan

Despite Its Siren Song, High-Value Targeting Doesn’t Fit All: Matching Interdiction Patterns to Specific Narcoterrorism and Organized-Crime Contexts

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Tuesday, October 1, 2013

Gender

Livelihoods, Gender and Displacement in Côte d’Ivoire

Monday, April 29, 2013

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Global Development

Impacts of Malaria Interventions and their Potential Additional Humanitarian Benefits in Sub-Saharan Africa

David L. Caprara and Ken Ballen

Friday, October 26, 2012

Blog Posts

A solar panel is pictured on the roof of Jean-Noel Kouame's house, on the outer limits of the main city Abidjan's vast urban sprawl, Ivory Coast December 18, 2017. Picture taken December 18, 2017. REUTERS/Thierry Gouegnon - RC1ECCAAF400

Africa in focus

Figures of the week: Africa’s energy innovation landscape

Friday, July 20, 2018

A woman votes at a polling station in Kibi, eastern region of Ghana and stronghold of presidential candidate Nana Akufo-Addo of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), December 7, 2012. Ghanaians choose on Friday who will run one of Africa's most stable democracies as a surge in oil revenues promises to boost development and economic growth. Ghana has earned a reputation as an oasis of stability and progress in West Africa, a part of the world better known for civil wars, coups, entrenched poverty and corruption. REUTERS/Luc Gnago (GHANA - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS) - GM1E8C71DSM01

Africa in focus

Politics, policy, and implementation: The ‘Ghanaian Paradox’

Cadman Atta Mills

Wednesday, July 18, 2018

Children file into classrooms in Monrovia, February 16, 2015. Thousands of Liberian children in pristine uniforms flocked back to school on Monday as classrooms opened their doors for the first time after a six-month hiatus designed to stem the spread of the worst Ebola outbreak in history. REUTERS/James Giahyue (LIBERIA - Tags: DISASTER HEALTH EDUCATION) - GM1EB2H06TT01

Future Development

New research on public private partnerships in education in Liberia and Pakistan

Thursday, October 5, 2017

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Events

Advancing female entrepreneurship in the developing world: A look at Africa

10:00 AM - 11:30 AM EST

POSTPONED – Organized crime, terrorism, and political power: The case of West Africa

1:00 PM - 2:30 PM EST

Development policies to foster stability in West Africa

10:00 AM - 11:30 AM EDT

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Multimedia

Photo: African leaders at Continental Free Trade Agreement signing

China

China, the US, and Africa’s transforming trade environment

Witney Schneidman, Yun Sun, and Adrianna Pita

Wednesday, April 11, 2018

Shoppers push trolleys at an upmarket shopping mall in Sandton, Johannesburg

Developing Economies

Africa’s expanding middle class

Haroon Bhorat, Homi Kharas, and Adrianna Pita

Wednesday, November 22, 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

Thursday, May 25, 2017

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Nigeria’s troubling counterinsurgency strategy against Boko Haram

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Friday, March 30, 2018

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Africa in the news: Electoral tensions arise in Mali and Congo, Ivorian president reshuffles cabinet, and Somalia’s internet returns

Friday, July 21, 2017

A worker services an Ethiopian Airlines plane at the Bole International Airport in Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa, January 26, 2017. Picture taken January 26, 2017. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh - RTSXR78

Africa in the news: Audit reveals depth of Mozambique’s debt, Nigeria launches tax amnesty program, and Ethiopian Airlines grows its fleet

Friday, June 30, 2017

People crowd a street at the central business district in Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos ahead of Christmas December 23, 2016.

Africa in 2017: Innovation, employment, and governance

Amadou Sy, Witney Schneidman, and Adrianna Pita

Wednesday, February 1, 2017

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Africa in the news: WEF underway, Kenya cuts budget, and terrorists hit Burkina Faso

Friday, January 22, 2016

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The state is hardly always just in suppressing militancy

Jide Akintunde and Vanda Felbab-Brown

Wednesday, January 20, 2016