By financing — and, in many cases, actually building — such infrastructure, Beijing hopes to bind the economies of a host of far-flung nations ever closer to its own, while increasing its political influence across the Eurasian mainland and Africa. ..…

There is evidence that enslaved people from some parts of Africa were exported to states Africa, Europe, and Asia prior to the  European colonization of Americas.. Slavery continues to Africa, Drewette-Card continue to push the discredited narrative that white..…

By financing — and, in many cases, actually building — such infrastructure, Beijing hopes to bind the economies of a host of far-flung nations ever closer to its own, while increasing its political influence across the Eurasian mainland and Africa. ..…

The median age there is 18 (less than half the age of the median European) and life expectancy is lengthening, which means that this continent, too, will age. . . But fertility rates in Africa are also falling – and there is no evidence that this continent will buck the low-fertility..…

Although there are more than 800 American military bases around the world, we included in our map only those 40 countries in which such bases are directly involved in the counterterror war, including Germany and other European nations that are important staging areas for American operations in..…