It would reportedly cover all foreign assistance – which could mean funding received by foreign and domestic NGOs, UN agencies, and possibly even governments that have signed bilateral deals with the ...

Closing the Red Sea Gap: Somaliland–Israel Alliance and the Bab el-Mandeb Corridor ...

In a small room in Kampala, over cups of coffee and quiet conversation, Sudanese refugee women gather to speak about what ...

The land flattens on the approach to Birao, a cut-off town ringed by savannah in the far north of the Central African ...

The Syrian government has seized swathes of northern and eastern Syria from Kurdish forces, consolidating President Ahmed ...

Currently, the three largest countries in Africa by land area are Algeria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and ...

The end of violence must be a first step in the Sudan Civil War. And Australia has a key role to play. The land of the Nile, ...

From Kazakhstan's vast steppes to Eritrea's Red Sea coast, these aren't your typical geography quiz countries—they're the ones that leave even well-traveled Americans scratching their heads and ...

It’s hard to imagine, but less than 200 years ago, Boston was surrounded by water. The city was basically an island, connected to the rest of the state only through a tiny spit of land. Neighborhoods ...

Old maps are rife with phantom islands. Sometimes these nonexistent landmasses come about because of mistakes made by sailors or cartographers; sometimes they can be traced back to folklore or legends ...

The emotional meaning of a place from centuries ago can be difficult to resurrect. The Stanford Literary Lab has plotted quotes from over 700 19th-century authors who mentioned locations in London in ...

A student once told me, halfway through the term, “I thought this class would be about memorizing countries. But now I can’t stop seeing systems.” He said it during a discussion about climate ...