The Mercator map from 1569 distorts Africa’s true size and ‘downplays its importance,’ Africa No Filter’s executive director tells Anadolu - Anadolu Ajansı ...

African advocacy groups launched a campaign to replace the Mercator map with the Equal Earth projection. The African Union endorsed the effort, saying the distorted map minimizes Africa’s global ...

The Mercator world map, long a fixture in classrooms globally, makes the European Union appear almost as large as Africa. In ...

Alexander Murphy recalls visiting a Guatemala museum some years ago and gazing up at a huge relief map of the country. Something about the borders struck the University of Oregon geography professor ...

The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) recently released its latest update on global conflicts, covering ...

The continent of Africa looks different depending on which calculations you choose to make a three dimensional reality into a ...

Ethiopia opens Africa's largest hydropower project, the Blue Nile's Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam — a milestone that's ...

Child deaths indirectly caused by impacts on female education may be on a par with child deaths directly due to conflict Across 28 countries in Africa, armed conflict within 25 kilometers of a female ...

Students and faculty recently gathered to discuss the flare-up of violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). While the conversation touched on the long history behind the current ...

As minerals fuel deadly conflicts in Africa, a leading cardinal urged local churches to ensure that Africa's abundant resources contribute to the benefit of its populations instead of hurting them.