In Tanzania Tundu Lissu, the opposition leader, was arrested on April 9th. The charge sheet cites comments he made threatening civil disobedience. Three days later his party was disqualified from the ...

US-South Africa relations have been tense and difficult for several years, but with the advent of the Trump Administration they have reached a critical ...

A Newsweek-created graphic shows the various travel advisories currently in place across Africa, including the no-go zones.

From the rolling plains of North Eastern Kenya to the arid valleys of Turkana, the political economy of Kenya’s marginalised regions remains one of the most misunderstood—and deliberately ...

For generations, students, leaders, and media audiences around the globe have gazed at maps that lie—maps that diminish ...

Africa isn’t just being outgunned by insurgents, it’s being outmanoeuvred by its own ...

A new world order is emerging. The United States is no longer the sole force shaping global events; countries like China, ...

A person's level of political engagement can be informed by myriad factors, from education to environment. Now, a new study - published in the journal Brain and led by Northwestern University and ...

National security adviser Mike Waltz’s team regularly set up chats on Signal to coordinate official work on issues including Ukraine, China, Gaza, Middle East policy, Africa and Europe ...

To get around this distortion, other map-makers have come up with different compromises. A projection named after the geographer Arthur Robinson curves the longitudes but keeps the latitudes straight ...

In a new cycle of escalating security threats in the eastern arc of the African continent and its adjacent southern regions, the dynamics of local and ...

Political parties and journalists have conventionally treated certain seats as “safe” (if the winning party’s vote two-party preferred margin was 60% or higher), others as “fairly safe” ...