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

Democracy is under threat globally and the U.S. is accelerating the decline, according to an institute backed by the ...

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

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 ...

Out of 193 UN member states, 147 recognise the state of Palestine – as Britain, Australia and Canada take action ...

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