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

The terrorist threat from al-Qaida, the Islamic State group and their affiliates remains high in conflict zones in Africa and in Afghanistan – and threat levels have risen in some regions including ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

An early 20th century world map using the Mercator projection, which critics say exaggerates the size of regions near the poles like Greenland while shrinking Africa and South America. African ...