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

Angolan President Joao Lourenco has called for economic growth through mutual cooperation at a global conference on African ...

The African Union has thrown its weight behind a campaign to adopt a world map that more accurately reflects the continent’s ...

The African Union and campaigners want Africa's map to be corrected to its true size after years of distortion ...

The African Union's recent support for alternatives to the Mercator projection challenges historical cartographic distortions ...

YOKOHAMA, Japan — Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Wednesday proposed an economic zone connecting the Indian Ocean to ...

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

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

The 55 countries endorsed a campaign to replace the Mercator map with alternatives that supporters say more accurately ...

TICAD 9, attended by roughly 50 African countries alongside global organizations, is Japan’s latest effort to reclaim influence in Africa as U.S. engagement wanes and China’s presence grows.

The African Union succeeded the old Organization for African Unity (OAU) in 2002. Since then, the new institution has struggled to reform governing bodies inherited from the OAU while shouldering ...