Africa has the most countries of any continent with a total of 54. Rather than following natural terrains or historical boundaries, many of its borders are strikingly straight in some areas and ...

Many regional initiatives emphasize cross-border integration and development. The African Union's Agenda 2063 , a framework for socio-economic transformation, is one.

It is time for a new Africa beyond borders and boundaries. Continental integration must be the primary agenda of this year’s African Union Summit in Addis Ababa.

In Africa, transnational parks have redefined state borders for wildlife. They could do more, radically decolonizing the continent. NYTimes.com no longer supports Internet Explorer 9 or earlier.

The African Continental Free Trade area (AfCFTA) is one of the flagship projects of AU Agenda 2063. ... Africa's Borders Continue to Stifle Its Future. 10 October 2024.

African national borders, and conflicts that arise from them, are often blamed on the Berlin Conference of 1884 to 1885. But a new paper in the Cambridge University Press argues that the majority of ...