Watch this post conference video on the Impact of COVID-19 on BAME lives chaired by RAS Chair  Zeinab Badawai, with keynote speaker Professor Kevin Fenton.   This event was hosted by RAS Council member Dr Titilola Banjoko and Profess...

Image Credit: NeilsPhotography   The IMF is an easy target for journalists, analysts and politicians under pressure to come up with a think- piece or a public speech. (The same can be said of many central banks.) Cosseted and living in an affluent bubble...

RAS Director, Nick Westcott, highlighted the importance of China’s response to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic in Africa when he participated in a panel discussion on the prospects for China-Africa relations at the US-China Series online conference l...

Photo credit: GCIS   Throughout the world, the coronavirus pandemic is testing political as well as medical systems. Some will survive, some may not. But everywhere, the strain it is putting on politics is accelerating a number of processes of change that...

Image Credit: Ben Schumin   Since our last column in mid-March many African governments have introduced lockdowns or other social measures to confront coronavirus. One (Ghana) has this week announced part relaxation of its controls. Rather than join the a...

COVID 19: Early community engagement & accurate communication is crucial   The APPG Chairs have recently written a letter to the Secretary of State for International Development to press the importance of early community engagement when supporting A...

‘Our justifiable concern about the pandemic in the UK must not make us insular and inward looking’ Our chair Zeinab Badawi writes in the FT about the doctors from Africa saving British lives in the #COVID19 pandemic, including her family member an...

Africa has already been severely impacted by the economic side-effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, whether the virus spreads more extensively there or not. This risks knocking years off Africa’s growth, exacerbating poverty and precipitating an African debt cr...