The Mercator projection, a centuries-old map style from the age of sail, still prevails in the internet age. Here’s what the ...

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Advocacy groups in Africa have launched a campaign to replace the Mercator map, which distorts Africa's size by making it ...

African nations are calling for the world map to be redrawn to show the “greatness of the continent”. The African Union has ...

Video game makers from around the globe have converged on Cologne for the annual Gamescom trade fair – the world's largest ...

Ted Cruz has called on President Trump to recognize Somaliland in exchange for a new strategic air and sea base, and access ...

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Thursday launched a G20 experts taskforce to examine global wealth inequality and its impact on growth, poverty and multilateralism — the first initiative of ...

That flat drawing inflates the size of countries closer to the North or South Pole. It exaggerates the area of North America and Eurasia while under-representing the size of much of South America and ...

Lesotho and Zimbabwe will be using South African stadia to host their World Cup qualifiers next month but Namibia have ...

Uganda’s decision to approve the Trump administration’s offer to take in migrants unwanted by the United States has sparked criticism in the East African nation that already houses the continent’s ...

Somali Prime Minister Hamza Abdi Barre on Wednesday declared that Somalia is positioning itself as a strategic hub connecting Africa, the Arab world, and Asia, as he addressed the opening ceremony of ...

The current standard misrepresents the continent’s scale, which activists argue reinforces misconceptions about its significance.