The primary difficulties of Liberia's remote Maryland County relate to a lack of jobs.

Africa can best hedge against inherent risks with Chinaby working to enhance its relations with other rising powers in the developing world.

The U.S. plan to establish a dedicated Africa Command has sparked suspicion on the continent. Both the United States and African countries need to revise the proposal.

The U.S. military's new African Command can only serve Africa as a genuinely transformationalist institution.

A new book on large African countries explores why these countries have security problems and what that means for Africa.

However it comes, change is needed for the starving of Zimbabwe and to prevent the long-term threat of Mugabe's "Look East" policy.

A new class of "entrepreneurial philanthropists" is redefining what counts as philanthropy.