Africa rsquo;s railway map tells a powerful but uncomfortable story . Most of the continent rsquo;s rail lines run from the ...

Picture this: over a century ago, in the stately halls of Berlin, seven European powers, Britain, France, Portugal, Germany, Belgium, Spain, and Italy, gathered to carve up Africa with rulers and pens ...

Somaliland’s case brings the dilemma back to the surface. This is a territory that has governed itself — largely peacefully ...

Israel's recognition of Somaliland continues to reverberate across the Red Sea's fast-changing geopolitics. How to read the emerging regional map? Certainly not through the lens of colonial ...

Analysis - The Boxing Day recognition will not bring stability but will ignite a conflict that empowers extremists and spills ...

Africa has around 60 to 80 active separatist movements, each fighting for autonomy or full independence inside existing countries. Many are driven by ethnic identity, resource control, political ...

In recent years, a handful of nations decided it was time to change their names. The reasons vary, but each switch came with ...

In countries such as South Sudan, the great herds have all but disappeared. But further south, conservation success mean increasing human-wildlife conflict ...

It is hard to imagine an island less like Greenland than Diego Garcia, a lush coral horseshoe halfway between Africa and Indonesia. Both lands host American military bases. But, whereas the United ...

Congolese independence hero Patrice Emery Lumumba shot to fame on June 30, 1960 with a blistering independence speech against ...

William Rankin’s ‘Radical Cartography’ makes a powerful case against mainstream mapmaking’s creation of an orderly, objective ...

As the world celebrates Dr . Martin Luther King Jr . , Africa should not treat his legacy as foreign ceremony .