Africa has the most countries of any continent with a total of 54. Rather than following natural terrains or historical boundaries, many of its borders are strikingly straight in some areas and ...

Rivers were used to map Africa because Europeans were particular about ... According to a new analysis, Africa's country borders were not arbitrarily drawn by colonial powers, but owe more to major ...

redrawing the map of Africa would likely lead only to more conflicts. It might increase economic disparities and language barriers. Importantly, doing away with post-colonial borders would not ...

Key to harnessing these resources are Africa's maritime boundaries - lines on a map showing the legal divisions ... that because there is dispute over a border, there will also be enforcement ...

Africans and others have proposed many new maps of Africa ... Even without redrawing the borders of Botswana, Namibia and South Africa, the nations could acknowledge that the Kgalagadi micro ...