The Fight for a New Map Reflecting Africa’s True Size Challenges Centuries of Western Dominance AFRICA When Nigerian-born ...

The Mercator map makes Africa look smaller than it is, as a push for more accurate maps asks us to rethink how we see the ...

But by looking at the Mercator Projection, one of the most widely used map projections, one wouldn’t know it. Created by ...

Researchers found that the solitary rodents build structures weighing up to 48 kilograms, with tunnels, chambers and basking ...

On September 4, the United Nations GeneralAssembly made what may become one of the most symbolic decisions in modernhistory. In an overwhelming vote of 164 in favour, one against and six abstentions, ...

For decades, Somaliland has often been discussed primarily through the lenses of politics, security and regional diplomacy.

The UN General Assembly has endorsed a non-binding, African-led resolution promoting equal-area map projections such as Equal Earth to better represent the size of continents.

For example, there are two competing stories about the woman running a business in rural Ghana. In the first, she is fragile, ...

The UN has called for the traditional world map to be replaced with one more accurately reflecting Africa’s size. How has ...

The Supreme Court’s recent decision to temporarily allow the United States to resume deporting migrants to third-country ...

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South Africa is seeing a sharp rebound in quarterly FDI, although one corporate transaction accounts for much of the increase. And a new Forbes ranking is challenging the traditional map of Africa’s ...