Many of the critical minerals required for electric vehicles, renewable energy technologies and AI-related infrastructure are concentrated on the ...

On September 4, the United Nations GeneralAssembly made what may become one of the most symbolic decisions in modernhistory. In an overwhelming vote of 164 in favour, one against and six abstentions, ...

For generations, millions of people have looked at world maps that make Africa appear smaller than it really is. A recent ...

African countries carry names shaped by geography, ethnicgroups, kingdoms, rulers, trade and colonial history.Some names point directly to natural features. Cabo Verde,meaning "Green Cape", reflects ...

Africa rests on three tectonic plates that are all moving away from each other and this has already caused some changes that are visible to the naked eye.

This is the introduction to Analysing Africa, a weekly, subscriber-only newsletter in which our correspondents turn their gaze on the latest developments in Africa. São Tomé and Príncipe, the ...

The United States stood alone Friday as the only country to vote against a United Nations resolution encouraging the use of world maps that more accurately depict the size of ...

The most widely used global map is almost 500 years old and was designed for navigation. But landmasses near the poles look larger than their actual relative sizes, and those near the equator look muc ...

By Prabir Purkayastha - Sep 14, 2026 Last week, on 4 September, the United Nations General Assembly adopted an African ...

Mercator maps distorted Africa for centuries. A U.N. vote asks the world to see the continent closer to its actual size. The ...

We asked Jack Swab and Derek Alderman, cartographers and geographers who study the social and communicative power of maps, to ...

Nearly every voting country recently approved of a new way to depict the world. The United Nations' endorsement of a new global map is intended to better represent the relative sizes of continents and ...