Togo is spearheading a diplomatic movement to overhaul how the world views the African continent. The West African nation plans to ask United Nations member states to adopt a world map that more ...
Yahoo: African Union urges adoption of world map showing continent's true size
The African Union is fighting to correct the misrepresentation of the African continent. By advocating for maps that reflect Africa’s true size, the AU aims to ensure a more accurate representation of ...
The African Union has joined a campaign calling for the widely-used Mercator map, which makes Africa appear smaller than it is, to be replaced with a map that more accurately reflects the continent's ...
Black Enterprise on MSN: This African Nation Says Its Time For World Map To Reflect The Continent's True Size
This African Nation Says Its Time For World Map To Reflect The Continent's True Size
The African Union endorsed a map that reflects the truer relative size of the continent. (map public domain via Equal Earth) The African Union, an intergovernmental organization of 55 African ...
MSN: African Union Urges Adoption Of World Map Showing Continent's True Size
LONDON/DAKAR (Reuters) -The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organisations of the 16th-century Mercator map of the world in favour of one that more ...
KUOW: African Union backs campaign to replace Mercator map that distorts Africa's size
African Union backs campaign to replace Mercator map that distorts Africa's size
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 ...