Maps are ubiquitous—on phones, in-flight and car displays, and in textbooks the world over. While some maps delineate and ...

Sudan, which included South Sudan up to 2011, has never known peace and stability since independence in 1956. The country's instability stems from the absence of democratic rule; failure to manage its ...

Following the ignominious end in 2022 of Barkhane, the multi-country anti-terrorism operation it launched at Mali’s request in 2013, France has given up most of its military footprint across west ...

Zour, which remains divided between Syria's new government and a Kurdish-backed militia, is a hostage to competing ambitions.

"I still see the knife, and the lady who held me down," said Hawa'a Mohamed Kamil, a peer educator in Djibouti, who was subjected to female genital mutilation (FGM) at just six years old, an ...

The kingdom has made football a major focus of its ambitions in Africa and is banking on the next Africa Cup of Nations, ...