The Red Sea is not merely a shipping lane on a map. It is the narrow passage where the future of Africa, the Middle East, and global stability may soon be decided.

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The Historic Maps of Africa collection includes 78 maps and dates from circa 1631 to 1973. Geographic content of individual maps varies from ...

Self-appointed patriots are up in arms about a plan to replace historical figures with cute wildlife. The Bank of England shouldn’t duck this debate, says author Jonn Elledge ...

Kurdish militancy is also likely to be met by resistance from other opposition groups and the wider Iranian population. Over ...

In the days that preceded March 6, 1957, when the Gold Coast shed its colonial label and stood on the brink of independence, its leaders reached back into West Africa’s deep past to settle on the name ...

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Only the cutting of US support sparked by America’s growing revulsion at the Israel-linked Epstein class will end Israel’s ...

President Kagame, who, like his DRC counterpart Tshisekedi, ducked the recent EAC Heads of State summit in Arusha, last ...

I realise they are criminals too, just like the Islamic Republic,' an Iranian mother says of Trump and Netanyahu ...

From Atrocity To Accountability, Syria's Path Runs Through Geneva. Enforced disappearances were a hallmark of the Assad regime in Syria. What are the prospects for justice and can UN institutions in ...

Since 1991 and the Chechen Wars, Russian policy has been an unconditional continuation of what was essentially left unfinished in the 19th century: a form of territorial colonialism (unlike Western ma ...

Historian and former diplomat Olivier Hein argues that Mauritius is a strategic crossroads that has shaped global history.