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Reports that the United Nations replaced the world map conflate a voluntary recommendation with a mandatory standard. The vote matters because equal-area projections change how Africa looks beside…
The names look like two versions of one state, but they belong to neighboring sovereign countries with separate colonial paths. The quickest way to untangle them is to…
This list brings together 54 countries in Africa and their capitals for quick reference. It includes the continent’s island countries and explains the cases where a capital’s legal…
Africa’s mineral, energy and agricultural resources can generate substantial wealth, but they do not automatically provide families with secure incomes. The connection depends on jobs, tax revenues, public…
