Leaders from eastern and southern Africa have called for an immediate and unconditional ceasefire in eastern Congo, where ...

In contrast to North Africa, East Africa was never subject to one wide, sweeping Muslim takeover. Islam came to the East African coast in many waves and at different times. There is no single date ...

"This is how humans migrated out of Africa. The great migration began in East Africa, particularly around present-day Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania. "Where homo sapiens began to move out to the ...

The course explores the economic history of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Many, if not most, of MENA’s contemporary problems cannot be understood without a deep understanding of its history ...

While North Korea is widely acknowledged as one of the world's most constraining dictatorships, there is a country that has been dubbed "Africa's North Korea".