Chinese port financing has plenty of drawbacks. But developing countries have few alternatives. 

The United States Marine Corps marks 247 years of service. 

The annual summer entertainment recommendations from The World Next Week podcast.

Benin has been something of a poster child for African democracy following its move away from Marxism–Leninism after the collapse of the Soviet Union. But since Patrice Talon was elected in 2016, the president has systematically squeezed the substance out of the democratic and constitutional forms, leaving only a shell.

Sub-Saharan Africa Has Fourteen Billionaires, eight of whom are in South Africa and seven of whom are white.