While a revolutionary tool for captains and explorers, the projection distorts the relative size of the continents, to the advantage of the West. On the Mercator map, Africa – sitting on the ...

This violence, they emphasised, took no notice of the black lines men had marked down on maps – much of the ... Research Institute’s Sahel and West Africa Programme, said that the three ...

Women's cricket in Africa is strongest in the south of the continent, and there are pockets of growth and progress in the east. But now, for the first time, the west will have a presence at a ...

The Ebola outbreak in West Africa was first reported in March 2014, and rapidly became the deadliest occurrence of the disease since its discovery in 1976. In fact, the epidemic killed five times ...

Urgent action is needed to stop drought in West Africa's Sahel region turning into a humanitarian disaster affecting 13 million people, Oxfam says. The charity says the international community ...