Johan Grimonprez's film charts both the hopes and the tragedies of Africa's freedom movements in the shadow of the Cold War, as the Soviet Union and the U.S. jockey for influence in the "new world." ...

However, in recent decades, Africa's relationship with the global system has begun to shift, and China has been a key ...

For decades, the Congo Basin was largely invisible to climate science. Now, a new generation of Central African researchers ...

While police reports indicate a steady decline in crime, gaps in data collection, case management, and reporting raise doubts ...

The economy is at a crossroads.” This is no news! After repeated cycles of unsustainable debt accumulation, fiscal distress, ...

Life is indeed short. Even a 100-year old person wonders if this is all s/he gets out of it. S/he looks back at his/her past ...

DAX hits record highs amid Germany's €500B infrastructure boost, robust exports, and demographic shifts. Click here for more ...

There are more young women than men in universities in two-thirds of the countries for which there are data: women today represent 51 percent of the world’s university students (see Chart 1 ...

Bitcoin (BTC) tumbled to record lows as multiple bearish catalysts combined to drive market sentiment downward. The latest ...

T he vision of Winston Churchill’s warm relationship with the United States seems to be fading as the geopolitical landscape ...

Banks worldwide have been continuously restructuring their businesses to focus on core operations. While these initiatives are expected to result in elevated expenses, they will drive growth in the ...