Published 3 April 2011Updated 12 July 2024 1884 Otto von Bismarck chairs the Berlin Conference to stem the scramble for Africa. Only Morocco, Ethiopia, and Liberia are recognized as independent entities. Partition of West Africa and East Africa 1896 Ethiopia, under Emperor Menelik II, defeats invading Italian army in the Battle of Adwa. Lumière brothers’…
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For years, warning signs have accumulated over the management of South Sudan’s oil revenues. Resources that should have sustained a population enduring one of the world’s most severe humanitarian crises have instead disappeared through opaque networks linked to a small circle of senior officials and their intermediaries. Neither the authorities in Juba nor the international…
