Ethiopia’s quest for access to the Red Sea has become a hotly debated topic on social media. Posts with a map of the Red Sea ...

The masked soldiers belong to the Tigray Defence Forces ( TDF ), the region’s army. By attempting what is, in effect, a coup, ...

towards the Eritrean border in the province of Afar, which neighbours Tigray to the east. In an Op-Ed published by The Africa ...

Our art reflects a commitment to the pleasant, a subtlety and delay in how we communicate, and an easygoing acceptance of ...

John Hancock is in a contemplative mood. It’s the eve of his daughter Georgia’s 18th birthday and he’s anxious that the party ...

Very, very big—but still not as enormous as you may think. Mercator projection maps stretch out the size of landmasses toward the poles, making Greenland look bigger than Africa or Australia. In ...

In order to explain the idea of such a sea-air barrier, we need to start with a map. Specifically ... and whether to do so from afar, or in close? Adapting this thinking, we can today describe a ...

Portraying China’s presence in Africa with flags on maps can distort African states’ sovereignty and their power to make ...