Most African countries lack accurate local base maps, stalling all sorts of government and business decisions. A new project ...

The African Union has endorsed a campaign to replace the distorted Mercator map with one that accurately reflects Africa’s true size Advocates say the centuries-old projection misrepresents Africa, ...

A team at the University of Copenhagen has generated a map of tree cover in 45 African countries down to individual tree crowns by feeding high-resolution satellite imagery into a machine-learning ...

Americans have been warned against travelling to certain parts of Africa, with a string of updated advisories issued by the U.S. State Department in recent weeks. Meanwhile, many other countries on ...

A growing number of African countries are opening their borders to one another without visa, creating a new sense of connection and unity across the continent. The shift toward visa-free travel isn’t ...