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Africa: World Maps Get Africa’s Size Wrong – Cartographers Explain Why Fixing It Matters

eriinfo.com4 weeks ago010 mins

The African Union has endorsed the #CorrectTheMap Campaign, a call for the United Nations and the wider global community to use a different kind of world map. The campaign currently has over 4,500 signatures. The map most commonly used is called the Mercator projection. Map projections are how cartographers (map makers) “flatten” the three-dimensional Earth…

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Africa: Fixing the House the World Built – a Realistic Plan for UN Reform

eriinfo.com3 months ago07 mins

New York — I’ve spent much of my life in the machinery of international development, navigating acronyms, crises, and committee rooms with stale coffee. Through it all–amid war zones, climate summits, and remote island consultations–one institution has remained constant: the United Nations. Revered, ridiculed, relied upon. But here’s the uncomfortable truth: the UN, in its…