Without its own maritime doctrine, Africa risks gradually losing sovereignty over its seas ...

Africa already shows innovation and leadership in ocean conservation, and countries must now push for early ratification. After nearly two decades of negotiations, consensus has finally been ...

fish and other sea life. Participants in negotiations say this will positively affect struggling fishers in Africa and the Global South. Henry Wilkins reports from Port Sudan, Sudan.

Africa is the largest regional bloc at the UN, and the African Group of Negotiators played a pivotal role in negotiating the High Seas Treaty — yet few countries from the continent have signed ...

Map: The Economist Saint Louis ... The problem is not only surging seas. It is also, simultaneously, sinking cities. In much of West Africa, subsidence—the lowering of the land surface itself ...