Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The African Union has started an effort to oust the Mercator projection map and replace it with what it says is a more accurately drawn map. The 16 ...

The African Union endorsed a map that reflects the truer relative size of the continent. (map public domain via Equal Earth) Already a member? Sign in here. We rely on readers like you to fund our ...

The African Union has endorsed the #CorrectTheMap Campaign, a call for the United Nations and the wider global community to use a different kind of world map. The campaign currently has over 4,500 ...

Spain and Italy say they are sending navy ships to where a flotilla of boats carrying activists seeking to break Israel’s ...

Rajnath Singh’s first-ever visit to Morocco as Defence Minister marks India’s entry into Africa’s defence market with a Tata armoured vehicle plant and a new MoU.

The Mercator map, first created in the 16th century, has long been the standard map used for navigation and education, but it stretches land masses farther from the equator. For example, Greenland ...

MoU to align standards, integrate platforms, and accelerate safe autonomous mobility in [the UAE, Central Asia, Africa, and other markets ...

In 1569, Flemish mapmaker Gerardus Mercator synthesized existing ideas in navigation and cartography to create a new type of world map. It has stood the test of time: Billions of people would ...

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The Libyan Red Crescent said the remains of five migrants have been recovered in the desert near eastern city of Tobruk. Abreen, a local aid group that tracks migrant deaths in Libya, said in ...

Frog Squad experts travel around the world, to the Caribbean, to countries in central and northern Africa, to Mauritius, the ...