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

Under heavy sanctions following its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia stepped up its courting of African governments with offers of military cooperation, weapons, grain and fertilizers. It’s also ...

While other regulators have not published similar surveys, reports from individual companies suggest they are equally reliant on outsourced technology. Kenya’s financial regulators have raised concern ...

Image: (Left to right) Nour Swellem of Egypt, IFAF president Pierre Trochet, Jawed Mohamed of Morocco - Flag football is gearing up to take over at the Olympics in 2028 It was called Vision28. A name ...

The 80th anniversary celebration of the United Nations (UN) was on Friday climaxed with a flag-raising ceremony. The week-long celebration was characterised by a health walk, tree planting exercise, a ...

African advocacy groups launched a campaign to replace the Mercator map with the Equal Earth projection. The African Union endorsed the effort, saying the distorted map minimizes Africa’s global ...

The African Union is fighting to correct the misrepresentation of the African continent. By advocating for maps that reflect Africa’s true size, the AU aims to ensure a more accurate representation of ...

The African Union has joined a campaign calling for the widely-used Mercator map, which makes Africa appear smaller than it is, to be replaced with a map that more accurately reflects the continent's ...

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The Nigerian American Football Association ( NAFA ) has unveiled its competition apparel for the inaugural IFAF Africa Flag Football continental Games in Egypt billed for June 20 and 21 in Egypt. In a ...

WASHINGTON — The Juneteenth flag will fly over some state capitols and city buildings on Thursday, June 19, a federal holiday marking the day the last enslaved people in the U.S. learned they were ...