Brits may feel that getting from one end of their country to another is a long-distance haul. But their perspective on the ...

Africa is the world’s second largest continent and contains over 50 countries. Africa is in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. It is spread across three of the major lines of latitude ...

A lush tropical island in the Indian Ocean boasts stunning beaches and scenery - and ranks top among Africa's safest countries, according to recent data. The Global Peace Index (GPI), a report by ...

At the end of the Second World War there were only three independent countries in Africa: Liberia, which had been founded by freed slaves and declared itself independent in 1847. Ethiopia ...

threatens to spread across the most fragile parts of Africa If you want to know why Sudan matters to so many other countries, just take a look at a map. There's a reason why the fighting that has ...