The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organizations of the 16th-century ...

Central African Republic ratifies the Maputo Protocol, becoming the 46th African Union Member State to commit to advancing ...

Julius Malema, leader of South Africa’s Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), says Africa’s economic future depends on bold ...

The 55 countries endorsed a campaign to replace the Mercator map with alternatives that supporters say more accurately ...

Similar worries were voiced by the African Union through its Commissioner for Political Affairs, Peace and Security, Bankole ...

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

African leaders call for urgent collective action to strengthen International Humanitarian Law and tackle the escalating ...

One thing that separates this wave of African pride from the ones that came before is social media. Dennis Howard, an ...

The African Union has rejected a move by Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) to form a rival government, calling ...

Abu Dhabi’s Space42 is in talks to raise funds to help the satellite communications company expand its mapping initiative in ...

Diaspora Africans in the U.S. fear the tax will make it harder to send funds for babies, food and health care back home.

African Union Commission Chairperson Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma speaks at a State Department event in Washington, DC, on April 13, 2015. Dlamini-Zuma is ending her tenure as the chairperson of the AU ...