Sahara Reporters: Togo, African Union Seek UN Adoption Of New World Map Reflecting Africa’s True Size
Togo, African Union Seek UN Adoption Of New World Map Reflecting Africa’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 ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The African Union has joined a campaign urging global institutions to adopt a map of Africa that more accurately reflects the ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. African nations are calling for the world map to be redrawn to show the “greatness of the continent”. The African Union has said ...
KUOW: African Union backs campaign to replace Mercator map that distorts Africa's size
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 ...
African Union backs campaign to replace Mercator map that distorts Africa's size
African advocacy groups launched a campaign to replace the Mercator map with the Equal Earth projection. The African Union endorsed the effort, saying the distorted map minimizes Africa’s global ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The African Union has endorsed the #CorrectTheMap Campaign, a call for the United Nations and the wider global community to use a ...
WAMC: African Union backs campaign to replace Mercator map that distorts Africa's size
CNN: African Union urges adoption of world map showing continent’s true size
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 Africa ...
The Mercator projection, a centuries-old map style from the age of sail, still prevails in the internet age. Here’s what the African Union wants to use instead ...
MSN: African Union urges replacement of outdated world map that shrinks Africa
The African Union has endorsed a campaign urging governments and international bodies to abandon the 16th-century Mercator map, which distorts Africa’s true size, in favour of more accurate ...
The Business & Financial Times on MSN: African Union adopts historic decision to restore accurate representation of Africa in global maps and educational systems
African Union adopts historic decision to restore accurate representation of Africa in global maps and educational systems
Reuters: African Union urges adoption of world map showing continent's true size
Yahoo: 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 ...
KPBS: African Union backs campaign to replace Mercator map that distorts Africa's size
DAKAR, Senegal — Africa is roughly three times as large as Europe, but you wouldn’t know it looking at the world’s most popular map, the 16th-century Mercator map. Last week, the African Union, a ...
Reuters reports that Togo’s Foreign Minister, Robert Dussey, disclosed that the West African nation, backed by the African Union, will formally push for a resolution at the United Nations General ...
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
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 ...
The Assembly of the African Union (AU), at its 39th Ordinary Session, has adopted a landmark decision to correct Africa’s misrepresentation in global cartography, geospatial systems, media, and ...
LONDON/DAKAR, Aug 14 (Reuters) - (This Aug. 14 story has been refiled to clarify the number of AU member states in paragraph 3) The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments ...