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

African Union promotes a new map revealing Africa’s true scale, aiming to reshape global perspectives on the continent’s size ...

Organizers behind the Correct The Map campaign say the Mercator map's shrinking of Africa minimizes the continent's global ...

On the Mercator projection, one of the world’s most popular maps, Greenland and Africa appear to be about the same size. But ...

Mercator projection is not the first time a European map distorted or misrepresented a region, says one expert. Another ...

Esri, the global leader in location intelligence, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Space42 and Microsoft to support the Map Africa Initiat ...

Google uses AI to add millions of previously undocumented buildings in Africa to Google Maps, closing the digital divide and aiding urban planning.

Daily statistics in Africa There have been at least 12,423,000 reported infections and 256,000 reported deaths caused by the novel coronavirus in Africa so far.

Microsoft, Space42, and Esri have launched the Map Africa Initiative, a five-year effort to build the most comprehensive digital base map of Africa, covering all 54 countries. The initiative aims ...

Sub-Saharan Africa is expected to account for more than half the global population increase until 2050.