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A new trade map is emerging amid tariff disruptions, as resilient global commerce shifts routes and new hubs in the Global South gain strength.

Benguerir — The NextGen Manufacturing Summit Africa opened Monday at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P), bringing together industry leaders, policymakers, and technologists to define Africa’s ...

For centuries, the maps used to understand the world have distorted Africa’s size compared to most northerly nations.

In reality, Africa is more than seven times bigger. It is a distortion that has prompted a new African initiative, “Correct the Map,” calling for depictions that show Africa’s true scale. “For ...

The Mercator map from 1569 distorts Africa’s true size and ‘downplays its importance,’ Africa No Filter’s executive director tells Anadolu - Anadolu Ajansı ...

In a paper in Nature, SFI External Professor Luis Bettencourt and co-author Nicholas Marchio, both researchers at the University of Chicago, use the first complete dataset of more than 415 million ...

In recognition of National Heritage Month, AfriGIS, in partnership with its Geotripz platform, is highlighting the critical role of geospatial intelligence in preserving South Africa’s cultural and ...

Angola reached a historic milestone today in conservation and sustainable development, officially joining UNESCO's World Map of Biosphere Reserves with the designation of the "Quiçama Biosphere ...

The global nonprofit WITNESS seeks to address one of the biggest data gaps in the digital verification landscape: the dependence on tools-based methods that lack local knowledge.