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

One of the biggest challenges in humanitarian aid is actually delivering the product to the people who need it most. Vaccines, disease-battling insecticides, and new advancements in solar technology ...

A scattergun approach to borehole drilling in Africa is likely to be unsuccessful. This is the message from a group of researchers who have, for the first time, quantified the amount, and potential ...

Facebook has created AI-based population maps before, but it's now generating them on a truly massive scale. The social site is releasing new, ultra-detailed population density maps that cover the ...

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. (Feb. 27, 2013) -- The Sept. 11, 2012, attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya reinforced the need for U.S. Army Africa to have at its fingertips the ability to ...

Africa is much bigger than you think. Here’s how you’ve been misled - A world map drawn in the 1500s is to blame ...