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Sub-Saharan Africa 1907
Consolidation of Ethiopia
By playing the European powers against one another as well as providing support to their wars in Somalia and Sudan ...
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Sub-Saharan Africa 1908
Belgian Congo
News of atrocities in the Congo Free State - personally ruled by King Leopold II of Belgium since the 1880s - led ...
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Sub-Saharan Africa 1910
Union of South Africa
In the wake of the Second Boer War (1899-1902), the British encouraged a tighter union between the old British colonies ...
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Australasia 2018
Australasia Today
Since 2003 Australasia has seen continued political stability, with no significant military events occurring after the 2006 Fijian coup. The ...
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South America 2018
South America Today
In 2016 Colombia finally negotiated an end to its five decades-long civil war. Meanwhile, with falling oil prices undermining Venezuela ...
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North America 2018
North America Today
In 2015 the US and Cuba normalized relations, finally bringing an end to the last significant Cold War rivalry in ...
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East Asia 2018
East Asia Today
China's economy continued with its impressive growth into the late-2010s but in 2017 international tensions in East Asia escalated ...
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the Arctic 2018
The Arctic Today
The past few years have seen the continued decline of Arctic sea ice, with sea ice extents reaching record lows ...
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Omniatlas in the Media
Omniatlas on BBC: The changing face of Europe
The BBC is making use of Omniatlas maps to show the changing face of Europe over the past 150 years ...
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Russia 1991
Dissolution of the Soviet Union
The signing of the Belavezha Accords and secession of Russia ended all hopes of preserving Soviet power. On 25 December ...