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As travel writer Scott McMurren hits 70, he looks back on his travels and what motivated him to hit the road and the air.

I became a geography ... our leaders in Africa. Do good. Govern well. Be useful to humanity in and out of office. Stop stealing. Look at the bigger picture ahead. I am sure most Americans don’t even ...

The first feature of mainland geography is the long rivers that begin in the highlands ... Luzon) to tiny pinpoints on the map (Indonesia is said to comprise 17,000 islands). Because the interior of ...

The Behaim Globe depicted a narrowed Atlantic Ocean, which, if crossed, would lead directly to Cipango (Japan) and Asia. In ...

An analysis of the gut microbiome in women from four African countries provides crucial data for this under-represented ...

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East Africa is likely to see increased interest from mining companies, many of which are smarting from disputes with military governments around the Sahel, the head of a major gold mining firm ...

French troops have been fighting insurgent groups linked to the Islamic state and al Qaeda across West Africa since 2014. Despite their military presence, French troops failed to quell the ...

Back in 2012, pressure on Paul Kagame, Rwanda’s president, by donor countries including America preceded a swift ouster from Goma of M23 by UN peacekeepers. That scenario seems less likely this time ...

We explore what the year ahead holds for the region. The survival of the groups that have replaced the Wagner Group mercenaries in West Africa is far from assured after they have taken regular ...