The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organizations of the 16th-century ...

The African Union is officially fed up with the 16 th -century representation of its continent that the world has accepted as the norm. The AU, which comprises 55 African nations, has set off on a ...

Crisscrossed by rail-straight lines that correspond to constant compass bearings, the Mercator projection was ideal for navigation in the age of sail, at the expense of showing the actual size of ...

Organizers behind the Correct The Map campaign say the Mercator map's shrinking of Africa minimizes the continent's global ...

The Mercator map from 1569 distorts Africa’s true size and ‘downplays its importance,’ Africa No Filter’s executive director tells Anadolu - Anadolu Ajansı ...

That flat drawing inflates the size of countries closer to the North or South Pole. It exaggerates the area of North America ...

A campaign group is pushing to have the current world map "corrected" to show Africa is actually larger than the current Mercator projection.

For centuries, the maps used to understand the world have distorted Africa’s size compared to most northerly nations.

The Mercator world map, long a fixture in classrooms globally, makes the European Union appear almost as large as ...

The African Union has thrown its weight behind a campaign to adopt a world map that more accurately reflects the continent’s relative size than the one currently adorning most geography-class walls.

Africa’s economy is projected to be worth more than $16 trillion by 2050, nearly 10% of global GDP, up from just 3% today. By ...

Africa’s largest telecommunications group said it was under investigation by the US Department of Justice over its operations ...