East Africa. East Africa is the most populous region, with 18 countries and an estimated 455 million people. Ethiopia is the most populous country in the region, with over 117 million people.

For centuries, the Mercator map – one of the most widely used world maps – has shrunk the African continent, distorting its scale and minimising its global significance. Africa covers 30,37-million ...

A new report describes the Sahel region of Africa, a million mile band that runs through Mauritania to Sudan, as "the epicenter of global terrorism." We examine those findings.