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Sub-Saharan Africa

Content related to countries in Sub-Saharan Africa including Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Uganda, Zimbabwe, and more.

Past Events

Africa's Free Trade Economy

March 26, 2021

PAST EVENT

Council President's Club and leadership members are invited to engage in a private dialogue with Africa’s first Secretary-General of the AfCFTA, H.E. Wamkele Mene, on the landmark trade agreement and its global impact.

Parked trucks wait in 10km queue to cross the Kenyan-Ugandan border from the town of Busia

Reuters

Agnes Binagwaho on Reimagining Global Health Equity in Rwanda

October 3, 2019

PAST EVENT VIDEO

Women, Equity, and Global Development Forum

Agnes Binagwaho, Vice Chancellor at the University of Global Health Equity, joined the Council to share the lessons that can be learned from Rwanda to inform global health equity.

François Terrier

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Commentary & Analysis

June 10, 2021

A New Approach to Building Peace

Podcast

Deep Dish Podcast

Although COVID-19 brought many aspects of our world to a standstill over the last year, violent conflict was not one of them. What can we do to end the cycle?

A woman from Somaliland flees her home due to drought

REUTERS

Global Politics

June 2, 2021

Closing Investment Gaps in African Aquatic Foods

BLOG

Global Food for Thought by Faridah Ibrahim

Aquatic food systems in Africa face many challenges and chronic underinvestment. WorldFish is trying to change that with the Fish for Africa Innovation Hub.

Trek net fishermen haul in their catch on Fish Hoek beach in Cape Town

REUTERS

Food and Agriculture

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Research

January 31, 2020

Considering a Soil Initiative for Africa

RESEARCH

Policy Brief by David Nielson

This paper diagnoses the challenges faced by governments, international organizations and research institutions in mitigating and reversing the decline of soil quality in Africa.

Workers unload a truck of harvested cassava roots.

Food and Agriculture

May 21, 2019

Addressing China's Rising Influence in Africa

RESEARCH

Policy Brief by Michael Tiboris

China’s growing contributions to African development should not automatically be feared, but their increased presence should create a recalibration in US approaches to development.