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

Diaspora Africans in the U.S. fear the tax will make it harder to send funds for babies, food and health care back home.

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

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

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

The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) has welcomed Ambassador El Hadji Ibrahima Diene, the newly appointed Special Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission (SRCC) ...

The African Union has endorsed a campaign urging governments and international bodies to abandon the 16th-century Mercator map, which distorts Africa’s true size, in favour of more accurate ...

The Mercator map of the world is used by many governments and international organisations. But the Correct The Map campaign ...

The African Union backs a campaign to replace the Mercator map with a more accurate projection that reflects Africa’s true size and global significance.

The African Union has rejected a move by Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) to form a rival government, calling ...

The African Union plans to launch a new African credit rating agency next year to address the group's concerns that ratings given to countries on the continent are unfair, an official told Reuters.