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

Serving as a public source of Africa-related information, the U.S. Africa Command website, updated daily, hosts the latest news and updates on command activities and initiatives.

The Mercator map, widely used since 1599, shows a version of Africa that has been distorted to appear significantly smaller.

In Mr Krause's map (above) he seems to have used the shapes of the countries from a Mercator projection, but has scaled up the outline of Africa, without changing its shape, to show the ...