With 12% of its population being under the age of 15, Western and Central Africa has one of the youngest populations in the world. Many countries are resource-rich and export commodities such as oil ...

One of Africa's Big Five countries is shown on world maps to be half the size it ... and a GDP of $347.59billion (£ 266.70bn). But, on a map, the inaccurate display of the country does not ...

the most dangerous in the world. The Central African Republic was pitched into war in 2013 after President François Bozize, a Christian, was overthrown by the mainly Muslim Seleka rebels.

JOHNSTONE opened the session of the Royal Geographical Society on Monday evening with a paper on British Central Africa ... and the map is beginning to acquire some firmness of outline.