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

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

African nations are calling for the world map to be redrawn to show the “greatness of the continent”. The African Union has said most maps skew the size of land masses, making Africa seem much smaller ...

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

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

There are growing calls from African nations for the international community to adopt maps that accurately reflect the true ...

African nations are calling for the world map to be redrawn to show the “greatness of the continent”. A growing campaign ...

A map released on Monday illustrates how widespread the consequences of an escalation of the crisis in Niger might be after the deadline passed for coup leaders to reinstate the ousted president.