Nahal Toosi is POLITICO’s senior foreign affairs correspondent. She has reported on war, genocide and political chaos in a career that has taken her around the world. Her reported column, Compass, ...

In the geologic history of Earth, shifting plate tectonics are commonplace, and Africa's impending rift is but another chapter in that story. The Earth's continents are far from constant.

Drawing upon the active participation of prominent African alumni, as well as others with expertise in the field, "Africa Rising" will offer big picture understandings of the continent, and the ways ...