The Horn of Africa, consisting of Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti and Somalia is sticking out of eastern Africa and contains ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. I share the view that the Mediterranean littoral belongs to Africa only in the ...

Schools IB geography class: Africa’s largest dam triggers alarm down the Nile on linkedin (opens in a new window) ...

How much power lies in a map? The push to replace the ‘distorted’ Mercator projection with a more accurate map that portrays ...

Eusebius McKaiser is the host a daily radio talk show in Johannesburg and the author of “A Bantu in My Bathroom: Debating Race, Sexuality and Other Uncomfortable South African Topics.” Updated July 30 ...

W. D. Cooley's merits as a geographer, and even his founding of the Hakluyt Society, have been largely forgotten. He is noticed, if at all, as the most notorious of the 'armchair geographers' who ...

South Africa is arguably the most geographically diverse country in the world, with landscapes ranging from dry deserts over ...

The map above has been making the Internet rounds this week for obvious reasons. One could quibble with the details. Congo recently had a now-contained outbreak of a different strain of Ebola. A ...