Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Resulting from negotiations between the British Empire and the defeated Boer ...

South Africa is the world's only nation with three capitals. Pretoria, Cape Town and Bloemfontein share administrative, legislative and judicial power, creating a political system built on regional ...

The Mercator map, first created in the 16th century, has long been the standard map used for navigation and education, but it stretches land masses farther from the equator. For example, Greenland ...

African nations are demanding that the 'distorted' world map be redrawn to show the true scale of the continent that they argue has been misrepresented for centuries. The African Union (AU) has backed ...

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 ...