The African Union has endorsed the #CorrectTheMap Campaign, a call for the United Nations and the wider global community to ...

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

Africa's landmass is so big that Russia, China, India and the United States could fit in it. But that's not the impression you get when you look at the world map that's been in use for more than 450 ...

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

The 55-nation alliance wants the world to adopt a new map that shows the relative size of the continents more accurately.

The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organisations of the 16th-century Mercator map of the world in favour of one that more accurately displays ...

The Mercator projection fosters a false impression that Africa is marginal, an African Union official said.