There are only two sea routes linking Europe with East Africa and much of Asia. Either you sail around the Cape of Good Hope or through the Suez Canal
Trump will be the star at Davos. Love or hate him, he’s likely to be the only head of state whose speech will be broadcast on all the news channels
Washington has spent the week seeking out like minds at a climate-change conference that ended last night in Germany.
Countries like the USA are expected to cut emissions now, while China can go on polluting until 2030, then trim its footprint
Britain, Europe and the US are snuggling up to their carbon-emitting coal fires
One of the reasons for Francophone Africa’s mass migration to France is leaders who refuse to go.
France, SA and Mozambique will give trawlers in the Mozambique Channel a harder time, but can they control the $23bn a year industry?
Economic woes and new calls for Biafran independence may signal the start of trouble in the country.
The West is riding on the hope that the Nigerian leader will defeat Boko Haram and end corruption.
The superpower may expand its bootprint across the continent but it was the Ebola outbreak that sparked this latest move in its ‘war on terror’.