Africa

FILE PHOTO: A funeral worker walks carrying a casket lowering device after a burial at the Westpark Cemetery, amid the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) outbreak, in Johannesburg, South Africa, December 24, 2020. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko
Coronavirus chronicle

World risks 'moral catastrophe' if Covid shots delayed in Africa, its CDC chief says

The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) hopes significant vaccination campaigns on the continent will begin in April, its head, John Nkengasong

An Ethiopians who fled war in Tigray region, looks through a wire fence as he arrives to receive relief supplies from the World Food Programme at the Fashaga camp on the Sudan-Ethiopia border in Al-Qadarif state, Sudan November 20, 2020. REUTERS/Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah
World+Biz

Ethiopia rejects African mediation, pushes toward rebel-held Tigray capital

Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa Vera Songwe arrives at the UK-Africa Investment Summit in London, Britain January 20, 2020 Photo: Reuters
Global Economy

As new debt crisis looms, Africa needs more than world is offering

Photo: Reuters
World+Biz

Warning of famine, UN releases $100M to seven countries

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari signs a landmark free trade agreement ahead of the African Union summit at the Palais des Congrès in Niamey, Niger, on July 7, 2019. ISSOUF SANOGO/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
Global Economy

Meet the world’s largest free trade area

A worker stands in front of a banner for Google AI during a presentation marking the opening of the first artificial intelligence center in Africa in Accra, Ghana. Photo: Foreign Policy/AFP/Getty Images 
Panorama

Is big tech setting Africa back?

PHOTO: RIFKA HAYATI/ISTOCK BY GETTY IMAGES via IMF Blog
Global Economy

Digital solutions for small businesses in the Middle East and North Africa

Picture: Reuters
Coronavirus chronicle

Millions of African children rely on TV education during pandemic

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Environment

Invasive Asian mosquito species threatens African cities: study

FILE PHOTO: Italian gas group Snam logo is seen outside their office in Rome, Italy, June 4, 2020. REUTERS/Guglielmo Mangiapane
Global Economy

Italy can be clean energy hub with hydrogen imports from Afria, study says

A victim of polio disease heads the ball during a game of para-soccer in Abuja, Nigeria August 22, 2020. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde
World+Biz

Wild polio sufferers reflect as Africa set to be declared free of the disease

Photo:Reuters
World+Biz

Africa to be declared polio-free

Cartoon/WSJ
Features

Scramble for Africa