Most African countries lack accurate local base maps, stalling all sorts of government and business decisions. A new project ...

The African Union has joined a campaign calling for the widely-used Mercator map, which makes Africa appear smaller than it is, to be replaced with a map that more accurately reflects the continent's ...

DAKAR, Senegal — Africa is roughly three times as large as Europe, but you wouldn’t know it looking at the world’s most popular map, the 16th-century Mercator map. Last week, the African Union, a ...

African nations are demanding that the 'distorted' world map be redrawn to show the true scale of the continent that they argue has been misrepresented for centuries. The African Union (AU) has backed ...