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

The African Union has endorsed the ‘Correct the Map’ campaign to abandon the 16th-century Mercator projection, long criticised for shrinking Africa’s true size. Advocates argue that adopting the Equal ...

The African Union's recent support for alternatives to the Mercator projection challenges historical cartographic distortions ...

The African Union has thrown its weight behind a campaign to adopt a world map that more accurately reflects the continent’s ...

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

The 55 countries endorsed a campaign to replace the Mercator map with alternatives that supporters say more accurately ...

The African Union and campaigners want Africa's map to be corrected to its true size after years of distortion ...

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Olivier Nduhungirehe, has expressed optimism that Africa can end armed conflicts before the end of the decade if their root causes are ...

The distortion has even influenced political perceptions of Trump, who once eyed buying Greenland, misled by maps showing it ...

African leaders call for urgent collective action to strengthen International Humanitarian Law and tackle the escalating ...