Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. African nations are calling for the world map to be redrawn to show the “greatness of the continent”. The African Union has said ...

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DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — On the Mercator projection, one of the world’s most popular maps, Greenland and Africa appear to be about the same size. But on the Equal Earth projection showing continents in ...