The Horn Of Africa States: The Confusions Of Overlapping Memberships – OpEd

Africa is a large continent, much larger than it appears on maps and other geopraphical presentations. It is some 30 million square kilometers in size, about 8,000 km from North to South and some 7,400 km from West to East at its furthest corners.

Africa's size is distorted by the original Mercator Map Projections, which was a...