Letters: The African Union’s complaints about the Mercator projection are misguided, writes Thomas Suárez. Plus a letter from ...

The African Union has endorsed the ‘Correct the Map’ campaign to abandon the 16th-century Mercator projection, long ...

Thousands of members and supporters of Tunisia's powerful Tunisian General Labour Union (UGTT) protested in the capital on ...

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

Giraffes are now classified into four distinct species in Africa. Researchers previously thought all giraffes belonged to a ...

The Special Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission (SRCC) reaffirms African Union (AU) support for Somali-led peace process ...

The African Development Bank will participate in the 9th Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD9) taking place in Yokohama, Japan from 20-22 August.

The centenary of the Pan Africanist and anti-colonial West African Students' Union (WASU) was 7 August. It was founded in London by twenty one British-colonised West African students. Initially, ...

Africa's leading development institutions have reaffirmed their commitment to building a continent-wide, African-led early warning system during the ClimDev-Africa Phase II Planning Workshop, held ...

U.S. border officials in Michigan stumbled on multiple discoveries of likely disease-ridden African bushmeat within a week's ...

Since COVID, there've been growing initiatives in Africa to start producing vaccines and medicines locally, thus gaining greater independence from global supply chains. But are these schemes ...

The summit, co-hosted by Japan, the United Nations, the African Union Commission and the World Bank, brought together global and continental leaders to deliberate on the economy, society, ...