Africa has the most countries of any continent with a total of 54 ... cutting through mountains, rivers and even communities. Most of these artificial borders trace back to the 1884-1885 Berlin ...

Rivers were used to map Africa because Europeans were particular about trade routes into the continent. Sixty-two percent of official African boundaries were influenced by historical political ...

Nairobi — Almost all major river basins in Africa have become the epicentres for conflicts over the last 20 years, and agricultural yields on the continent could drop by up to 50 percent in the ...

This issue of Africa Focus is dedicated to WWF initiatives from around the continent demonstrating varying ways of ... Africa is blessed with abundant water resources with large rivers like Congo, ...