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

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

Supporters of the campaign say that the popular Mercator projection promotes a false view of the continent and its size.

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.

On World Humanitarian Day, the Chairperson of the African Union Commission, H.E. Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, honoured the courage and sacrifice of humanitarian workers in Africa and across the world.

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

African leaders call for urgent collective action to strengthen International Humanitarian Law and tackle the escalating humanitarian crises affecting the continent.

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

Biden to meet with India Prime Minister Modi ahead of G20 The Group of 20 top world economies welcomed the African Union as a member as their annual summit got underway Saturday, but their wording ...

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.