Many of Madagascar’s difficulties stem from the disastrous socialist experiments under Didier Ratsiraka, president from 1975 ...

Bertil Lintner reviews new books about U Thant, the Burmese schoolmaster who helmed the UN during its heyday, and about Vladimir Putin’s desperate attempts to find support in the East.

The Mali Federation was a short-lived attempt to unite French-speaking West African colonies after independence. Formed in 1959, it included Senegal and the Sudanese Republic (now Mali). The ...

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A new trade map is emerging amid tariff disruptions, as resilient global commerce shifts routes and new hubs in the Global ...

African leaders spoke vehemently about global conflicts and called for an end to Israel's attacks on Gaza. However, analysts ...

For decades, one African country has been missing from every map. This investigation takes you inside 50 hours in the unrecognized nation the world refuses to acknowledge.

In a paper in Nature, SFI External Professor Luís Bettencourt and co-author Nicholas Marchio, both researchers at the ...

Ghana's President John Mahama says his country has received a group of 14 West African deportees from the United States ACCRA, Ghana -- A group of 14 West Africans deported from the U.S. arrived in ...

IN SOME PARTS of the West, children of healthy weight have become the exception. In poor countries, childhood obesity is spreading faster than ever before. The problem is not new: the percentage of ...

The Mercator world map, long a fixture in classrooms globally, makes the European Union appear almost as large as Africa. In reality, Africa is more than seven times bigger.

An attorney representing the Department of Homeland Security and ICE has notified high-profile illegal immigrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia that he will be deported to the tiny African nation Eswatini, ...