Researchers are warning of a diabetes crisis, as nearly half of 1.3 billion affected adults go undiagnosed, with young people ...

The Horn of Africa, consisting of Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti and Somalia is sticking out of eastern Africa and contains extreme examples of fertility and barrenness, summits and depths, and ...

American TikToker Brittney Dzialo is going viral for somehow boarding a plane headed to Tunis, the capital of Tunisia, rather ...

While it reaffirmed broad values such as solidarity, shared security and openness, it also offered tangible commitments. A ...

The Mercator world map, long a fixture in classrooms globally, makes the European Union appear almost as large as Africa. In ...

The Mercator map, first created in the 16th century, has long been the standard map used for navigation and education, but it ...

Explore South Africa’s geography, from dramatic coastlines and savannahs to mountain ranges, deserts, and forests. This film ...

The African Union is officially fed up with the 16 th -century representation of its continent that the world has accepted as the norm. The AU, which comprises 55 African nations, has set off on a ...

By contrast, in Africa, when the contracts of local staff hired by aid organizations expire, it means there will be nobody who leads local malaria-related activities. “There are many things that ...

Advocacy groups in Africa have launched a campaign to replace the Mercator map, which distorts Africa's size by making it seem smaller.

A map is a map is a map, right? Wrong, says Africa No Filter. The advocacy organisation, which aims to shift stereotypical narratives about the continent, believes Africa is misrepresented on world ...

The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organizations of the 16th-century Mercator map of the world in favor of one that more accurately displays ...