Togo is spearheading a diplomatic movement to overhaul how the world views the African continent. The West African nation ...
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 ...
Togo officials argue that current widely used projections are geographically deceptive and minimize the continent's global ...
By Noel Kokou Tadegnon and Catarina Demony LOME, April 14 (Reuters) - Togo will ask United Nations member states to adopt a ...
Togo has launched a campaign to adopt a world map that better represents the true size of Africa. Now Togo will ask UN member ...
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 ...
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 ...
"On classroom walls from Lagos to London", the standard map of the world depicts an "inflated Britain at the centre" and a dramatically "shrunken Africa", said The Times. But this could soon change.
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 ...
Reuters reports that Togo’s Foreign Minister, Robert Dussey, disclosed that the West African nation, backed by the African ...
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 ...
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