Konrad Yakabuski, Globe & Mail
Jeff Wilser, Mental Floss
Ike Okonta, Project Syndicate
John Campbell, Africa in Transition
Joel Kotkin & Wendell Cox, New Geography

What is more appropriately defined as North American oil independence -- since the United States will continue to depend on Canadian and Mexican crude for decades to come -- is alm...(full article)

These nations have been dismissed as underdogs and weaklings. But like budding superheroes, they have been sitting on hidden talents. And now they’re about to fly....(full article)

In recent years, competition from Asia has weakened the north’s once-prosperous textile industry, leaving thousands unemployed; drought has devastated the region’s agri...(full article)

On April 24, President Goodluck Jonathan inaugurated the Committee and established its modalities in a ceremony at the presidential villa. The committee is to open t...(full article)

The fastest-growing megacities over the past decade have been primarily in the developing world. Karachi, Pakistan, has led the growth charge, with a remarkable 80% expansion in it...(full article)
Through its murder of seven European and Middle Eastern hostages over the weekend in northern Nigeria, Ansaru has trumped Boko Haram through the propaganda of horror, at least for ...
Individuals are more concrete than the national or ethnic group of which they form a part. To talk about an individual's personality and tendencies is easy for those who know the p...
he war in Afghanistan is drawing to a close, marking the end of more than a decade of continuous fighting in big, traditional conflicts. But even as the wars in Iraq and Afghanist...
I’ve got nothing against the passions of those — including friends of mine — pushing hard to persuade President Obama not to let the Keystone XL pipeline move for...
The first papal resignation since 1415 will throw the world’s attention on Nigeria’s Cardinal Francis Arinze, who is the bookies’ favourite to succeed Benedict XV...
From the fight against polio to fixing education, what's missing is often good measurement and a commitment to follow the data. We can do better. We have the tools at hand....
The political institutions of Africa's biggest country are incapable of dealing with even the smallest challenge. Indeed, they often make matters worse....
Every year, around the world, old conflicts worsen, new ones emerge and, occasionally, some situations improve. There is no shortage of storm clouds looming over 2013: Once ...
The Christmas season's become a time to reflect on the fate of Christians around the world, from the besieged ancient communities of the Middle East to the tyrannized worshippers i...
Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau delivered a video speech in Arabic posted November 29, on jihadist websites. In it, he associates the United States, Britain, Nigeria, “and ot...
During the past year, the Nigerian militant group Boko Haram has expanded from its traditional area of operations in northeastern Nigeria’s Borno State and is now capable of ...
The latest bombing in Nigeria shows how Christians are increasingly suffering for their faith – and how their plight is being ignored....
The idea of attacking the United States, “the far enemy” in jihadist parlance, was always unpopular for many Islamic radicals, whose chief goal was replacing their own ...
Almost four decades ago, oil was dubbed the “devil’s excrement” by Juan Pablo Pérez Alfonso, a Venezuelan minister who was among the founders of Opec. Anyo...
Nigeria's Boko Haram has been accused of crimes against humanity. In a country where college students are lynched in tough neighborhoods, the most depraved killers are still not co...
The second half of the Human Rights Watch report deals with the reported abuses committed by the security services. It provides a greater degree of specificity than I have seen bef...
This 98-page report catalogues atrocities for which Boko Haram has claimed responsibility. It also explores the role of Nigeria’s security forces, whose own alleged abuses co...
The unavoidable disorders of the Arab Spring and the power vacuums of Africa have created an atmosphere hospitable to terrorist threats. But the administration finds this narrative...
Most of Obama’s high-profile efforts have been washouts. Launched in 2009, the Global Health Initiative was supposed to broaden U.S. health investments beyond single diseases to ...
We are killing people in acts of war across Central Asia, the Middle East and Africa and expect to kill quite a few more. We are fighting a battle first to contain and then to defe...
Europe's arbitrary post-colonial borders left Africans bunched into countries that don't represent their heritage, a contradiction that still troubles them today....
With intra-African trade estimated at below 10%, its 800-million citizens must now negotiate federations and regional trade blocs that better reflect the political, socio-economic,...
Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan described Boko Haram, the Islamist group responsible for a series of terrorist attacks in his country, as having global ambitions. A senior ...
Recent reports show the Nigerian terrorist organization, Boko Haram, has acquired a helicopter. An arrested member of the Islamic terror group disclosed the helicopter was brough...
The name Timbuktu has come to evoke the most remote, mysterious, and inaccessible corner of the earth. Five hundred years ago, Timbuktu was a great center of Islamic scholarship...
In a significant expansion of the war on drugs, the United States has begun training an elite unit of counternarcotics police in Ghana and planning similar units in Nigeria and Ke...
Chinese exports to Africa jumped 22 percent last year to hit $73 billion, more than double the gross domestic product of Kenya or Ethiopia. Chinese officials pledged to do more t...
Violence between Christians and Muslims in Nigeria is drawing the country ever closer to a religious war. The instigator of this conflict is Boko Haram, an Islamist movement whose ...
For the U.S. and its allies, AMISOM represents progress in the war on terror. Rather than mass deployment of troops, the U.S. and the European Union are funding neighboring count...
Recent warnings in Washington about the influence and cooperation of Islamist movements in Africa should not fall on deaf ears....
Pity sub-Saharan Africa -- but maybe for not much longer. In the first decade of the new millennium, six of the world's ten fastest-growing economies (Angola, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Ch...
Long a troubled nation, Nigeria now risks religious war. So far the killing essentially runs one way: Islamic extremists kill Christians. President Goodluck Jonathan has responded ...
While elites in government fiddle around, getting rich and comfortable, the country around them is burning....
For the past few months, I've been hearing private warnings about another threat to commercial planes -- namely, the spread of shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles from Libya af...
Take a look at the pace of economic growth in much of Africa, and the picture is brighter than at almost any time since the end of colonial rule. It may not matter if population ...
Despite its best efforts, America cannot make the world free. But at least Americans can work to make the world freer. They should support religious liberty as they go out into...
Representative government is still on the march in Africa, despite recent hiccups....
The rise of Boko Haram has derailed a once hopeful dream for Nigeria....
The radicalisation of Nigerian Muslims first entered the public consciousness in the West when the “underpants bomber” failed to blow up an American passenger jet as it...
Africa's religious divide is visible from space. Satellite images show the browns and burnt yellows of the arid north giving way to tropical greens as the view moves from north to ...
The development in many countries is certainly something to be optimistic about, but it's worth remembering sometimes that press coverage on Africa tends toward the over-optimist...
Christianity and Islam have been at war most of the time since Muslim armies conquered half of the then-Christian world, from Syria to Spain, in the 7th and 8th centuries. There ...
Last week, the Islamist group Boko Haram launched a horrific attack, bombing five Nigerian police stations and killing 186 in one day. What started as a campaign targeting Christia...
An African Spring in the exact fashion of the Arab Spring would signify a step backwards - not a step forward....
The series of bombings in Kano, Nigeria's second-largest city, which have killed 178 so far and for which the extreme Islamist group Boko Haram has claimed responsibility, reveal...