The African Union has thrown its weight behind a "Correct the Map" campaign, calling for an end to the use of the standard ...

'Correct The Map' wants organisations like the World Bank and the United Nations to adopt the Equal Earth map. A World Bank ...

The 1569 Mercator map did not merely misrepresent Africa’s size—it mutilated its dignity and incapacitated its destiny. From ...

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

The campaign to correct the map is led by the advocacy groups Africa No Filter and Speak Up Africa that urge organisations to ...

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

Created by cartographer Gerardus Mercator for navigation, the projection distorts continent sizes, enlarging areas near the poles like North America and Greenland while shrinking Africa and South ...

“It might seem to be just a map, but in reality, it is not,” AU Commission deputy chairperson Selma Malika Haddadi told ...

The African Union (AU) has endorsed a campaign for the worldwide adoption of the ‘correct’ map of the continent that ...