{"id":38778,"date":"2025-08-29T12:01:43","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T10:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2025\/08\/29\/campaigners-want-to-change-world-map-to-show-africa-is-bigger\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T12:01:43","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T10:01:43","slug":"campaigners-want-to-change-world-map-to-show-africa-is-bigger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2025\/08\/29\/campaigners-want-to-change-world-map-to-show-africa-is-bigger\/","title":{"rendered":"Campaigners want to change world map to show Africa is bigger"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>In tonight&rsquo;s edition: Africa says it&rsquo;s time the world sees it at the right size. The African Union has backed a campaign to replace the centuries-old Mercator map, which shrinks the continent, with the more accurate Equal Earth projection.\u00a0Also,\u00a0Tanzania&rsquo;s election campaign officially begins. Plus, Nigeria bans the export of raw shea nuts for six months, aiming to become a global supplier of refined shea butter and skincare products.\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In tonight&rsquo;s edition: Africa says it&rsquo;s time the world sees it at the right size. The African Union has backed a campaign to replace the centuries-old Mercator map, which shrinks the continent, with the more accurate Equal Earth projection.\u00a0Also,\u00a0Tanzania&rsquo;s election campaign officially begins. Plus, Nigeria bans the export of raw shea nuts for six months, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4],"class_list":["post-38778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-headlines","tag-africa","tag-afrique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38778"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}