By Nigel Westmaas  “How can you have peace with Empire?” Ras Makonnen to Conference on Peace and Empire, 1938 In Holding ...

The Nile has always been more than a river. It is memory, identity and survival braided together across north-east Africa. Today, as the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam rises on the Blue Nile, that ...

The existential question of which countries are the oldest has long intrigued historians, and for good reason. However, defining what makes a country "old" is challenging, as it depends on historical ...

Analysis - Israel's recognition of Somaliland continues to reverberate across the Red Sea's fast-changing geopolitics. How to read the emerging regional map? Certainly not through the lens of colonial ...

UN Tourism barometer has termed 2025 “a new record year for international tourist arrivals in the post-pandemic era.” This ...

Shortly after Donald Trump was elected president for the first time, someone asked me in a public forum whether I thought he was a fascist.  I replied that Trump was an ultra-nationalist conservative ...

President Donald Trump marked his first year back in office by presiding over a meandering, nearly two-hour-long press ...