The global community's ongoing disregard for Somaliland is far more than a diplomatic oversight; it is a profound injustice that undermines regional stability and silences one of Africa's most ...

Once, the U.S. government used its influence to prevent human rights abuses overseas. Now, Washington is practically silent.

Opposition leaders and rights activists are jailed as presidents previously hailed as democrats turn repressive. It wasn’t always this way.

Security cabinet discusses state of hostage deal talks — official * Lebanese health ministry reports 1 killed by Israeli ...

Without its own maritime doctrine, Africa risks gradually losing sovereignty over its seas ...

All volumes are richly illustrated with maps ... a general outline of sources and techniques. The second half of the volume deals specifically with the earliest man and the prehistory of Africa ...

A slow-moving geological change in East Africa could reshape the continent and the world. Tectonic forces are gradually pulling the African continent apart, potentially creating a new ocean.

A quiet and slow-moving change is unfolding beneath the surface of East Africa– one that could, over millions of years, reshape not only the continent but the global map as we know it.

"Because if we look at the evolution of our species and the branches of our lineage, someone from West Africa has more genetic differences with someone from East Africa than someone from Europe ...

China has become Africa’s single largest trading partner. In response, media and policymakers in traditionally dominant states are increasingly using maps drenched in red or stamped with Chinese ...

This is the Caprivi Strip. Until the early 20th century, Germany controlled German South West Africa (now Namibia) and German East Africa (now Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi) while Britain ...