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Blog Post
February 22, 2023
When Nigerian voters head to the polls on Saturday to elect the country’s next president, all of Africa—and beyond—will be watching. CGD's Gyude Moore sits down with Amaka Anku, head of the Eurasia Group's Africa practice, to discuss the advantages and challenges of the leading candidates, the role ...
Blog Post
December 14, 2022
As African and US Leaders meet in the Washington Summit this week, we decided to ask the leader of a key agency, with a long track record on the continent, how it is contributing to more effective and expanded US engagement. We asked Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) CEO Alice Albright a series...
Blog Post
December 13, 2022
In this bonus episode of Lagos to Mombasa, Gyude invites two experts who were on the ground in Sharm El Sheikh for COP27—the UN’s annual conference on climate—to report back with their observations and takeaways: Faten Aggad of the African Climate Foundation and Ian Mitchell of CGD. Together they di...
Blog Post
December 09, 2022
With climate change already affecting the lives and livelihoods of millions of people around the world, the need for a coordinated global response has never been more urgent. But to mobilize the huge sums required to finance the investments we need to ensure a climate-resilient future, the world mus...