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

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

Pope Francis’ more than 12-year pontificate deeply resonated with the people of God in Africa, with one exception related to ...

WASHINGTON, April 23, 2025 — According to the World Bank’s latest Middle East and North Africa Economic Update, entitled Shifting Gears: The Private Sector as an Engine of Growth in the Middle East ...

Donald Trump’s imposition of tariffs on almost every country in the world is causing shockwaves - and the Middle East and North Africa has not escaped. The US president announced the widest set ...

Ancient DNA from the Takarkori rock shelter has revealed an isolated group of humans who lived for tens of thousands of years in northern Africa. While their relatives spread around the world and ...

The World Bank’s 2024/5 country classification ... In contrast to sub-Saharan Africa, North Africa is already well into its demographic transition (see map below). It should be experiencing higher ...

The meeting offered South Sudanese officials and businesses a platform to forge new trade partnerships, attract investment and share in Africa’s innovation-driven growth. Relations between Kiir ...

The stark consequences of the rollback are evident in few places as clearly as in Sudan, where a brutal civil war has ...

In most emerging and least developed countries, decolonisation is not yet complete. It is “Not Yet Uhuru!” The economies of ...

In Chapter 2 of the report, World Bank economists forecast that the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) will grow at a modest rate of 2.2% in 2024. This slight uptick in growth from 2023 masks ...