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

African media quizzed FIFA president Gianni Infantino if people from the continent will be safe and welcome in the U.S. at ...

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 feature debut of Kenya's Vincho Nchogu follows a woman who signs a morally questionable deal with an NGO that sets her at ...

That flat drawing inflates the size of countries closer to the North or South Pole. It exaggerates the area of North America ...

The African Union is pushing to end Mercator’s distortions and replace it with projections that reflect the continent’s real proportions ...

A growing campaign backed by the African Union is urging schools and organizations to replace the Mercator projection with a ...

African countries imported a record number of solar panels in the past year, which could be the beginning of a green energy ...

South Africa's rand weakened in early trade on Wednesday ahead of the release of a purchasing managers' index survey and as ...

Wagner, a feared Russian mercenary group, is being replaced on the continent by another Russian paramilitary, experts say – ...