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

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

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

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

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

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

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

President Ramaphosa arrives in Japan to participate at the 9th Tokyo International Conference on African Development Summit ...

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.

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