Here are 40 maps crucial for understanding the Middle East — its history ... Middle East and North Africa – and why Libya's capital, Tripoli, still bears the name of the ancient Phoenician ...

The largest city in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo ... may be willing to use its strength to redraw the map of the region—and, in doing so, risk another catastrophic African ...

Maps are ubiquitous – on phones, in-flight and car displays, and in textbooks the world over. While some maps delineate and name territories ... exclusive to the Middle East – “map wars ...

Then the baby nearly died. “This boy is trouble,” his father said. “His name is Trouble.” Across Africa names can have a story behind them. Yewande, for instance, is a Yoruba name meaning ...