The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organisations 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 has thrown its weight behind a campaign to adopt a world map that more accurately reflects the continent’s ...

The Mercator map, widely used since 1599, shows a version of Africa that has been distorted to appear significantly smaller.

One thing that separates this wave of African pride from the ones that came before is social media. Dennis Howard, an ...

On World Humanitarian Day, the Chairperson of the African Union Commission, H.E. Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, honoured the courage and sacrifice of humanitarian workers in Africa and across the world.

The African Union has backed mounting calls to discontinue the Mercator map, which inaccurately shrinks Africa’s true ...

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

President Cyril Ramaphosa has today, 19 August 2025, arrived in Japan to lead South Africa’s High Level delegation participation to the 9th Tokyo International Conference on African Development Summit ...

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

The African Union has officially designated 2025 as the "Year of Reparations and African Heritage," launching a coordinated ...