{"id":200574,"date":"2026-09-04T19:17:01","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T19:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/afrique\/200574\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T19:17:01","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T19:17:01","slug":"lonu-veut-agrandir-lafrique-sur-les-cartes-les-etats-unis-sy-opposent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/afrique\/200574\/","title":{"rendered":"L\u2019ONU veut agrandir l\u2019Afrique sur les cartes, les \u00c9tats-Unis s\u2019y opposent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">L&rsquo;Assembl\u00e9e g\u00e9n\u00e9rale de l&rsquo;ONU a adopt\u00e9 ce vendredi 4 septembre une r\u00e9solution pour promouvoir une repr\u00e9sentation cartographique mondiale plus fid\u00e8le \u00e0 la taille r\u00e9elle des continents, agrandissant notamment l&rsquo;Afrique et r\u00e9tr\u00e9cissant les <a data-ylk=\"slk:\u00c9tats-Unis;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.parismatch.com\/dossiers\/etats-unis\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">\u00c9tats-Unis<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Ce texte, port\u00e9 par le Togo et l&rsquo;Union africaine et coparrain\u00e9 par la France, a \u00e9t\u00e9 adopt\u00e9 par 164 voix contre une, celle des \u00c9tats-Unis, et six abstentions. La r\u00e9solution vise \u00e0 encourager les organisations internationales et les \u00c9tats \u00e0 utiliser des repr\u00e9sentations cartographiques de type \u00ab\u00a0Equal Earth\u00a0\u00bb.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Cette <a data-ylk=\"slk:cartographie;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.parismatch.com\/Actu\/Insolite\/A-11-ans-il-dessine-la-carte-du-monde-de-memoire-742310\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">cartographie <\/a>abandonne la projection dite \u00ab\u00a0de Mercator\u00a0\u00bb du nom de Gerardus Mercator, g\u00e9ographe, cartographe, philosophe et th\u00e9ologien n\u00e9 en Flandres en 1512.<\/p>\n<p>\u00ab\u00a0Les cartes fa\u00e7onnent notre compr\u00e9hension du monde\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Sa carte du monde a \u00e9t\u00e9 con\u00e7ue pour la navigation maritime et agrandit artificiellement les territoires situ\u00e9s aux hautes latitudes. Une distorsion qui \u00ab\u00a0contribue \u00e0 minimiser dans les esprits la taille de l&rsquo;Afrique, de l&rsquo;Am\u00e9rique latine et de l&rsquo;Asie du Sud, et \u00e0 perp\u00e9tuer une vision d\u00e9s\u00e9quilibr\u00e9e\u00a0\u00bb de la plan\u00e8te, selon le texte de la r\u00e9solution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u00ab\u00a0Les cartes fa\u00e7onnent notre compr\u00e9hension du monde\u00a0\u00bb, a d\u00e9clar\u00e9 le ministre des Affaires \u00e9trang\u00e8res du Togo \u00e0 la tribune, Robert Dussey. \u00ab\u00a0Elles orientent l&rsquo;\u00e9ducation, nourrissent l&rsquo;imaginaire et influencent les perceptions collectives. Elles ne sont donc jamais neutres\u00a0: lorsqu&rsquo;elles donnent une image d\u00e9form\u00e9e de notre plan\u00e8te, elles risquent de perp\u00e9tuer des repr\u00e9sentat&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:Lire la suite sur ParisMatch;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.parismatch.com\/actu\/international\/lonu-veut-agrandir-lafrique-sur-les-cartes-les-etats-unis-sy-opposent-275225?at_medium=affiliate&amp;at_campaign=Yahoo\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Lire la suite sur ParisMatch<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"L&rsquo;Assembl\u00e9e g\u00e9n\u00e9rale de l&rsquo;ONU a adopt\u00e9 ce vendredi 4 septembre une r\u00e9solution pour promouvoir une repr\u00e9sentation cartographique mondiale&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200575,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[61037,6,61039,61042,61043,61046,61045,61038,61041,61040,30593,61044,667],"class_list":["post-200574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afrique","tag-adopte-ce-vendredi-4","tag-afrique","tag-cartes-faconnent-notre-comprehension-du-monde","tag-celle-des-etats-unis","tag-dite-de-mercator","tag-donnent-une","tag-elles-ne","tag-fidele-a-la-taille-reelle-des-continents","tag-philosophe-et-theologien-ne-en-flandres-en-1512","tag-porte-par-le","tag-robert-dussey","tag-selon-le-texte-de-la-resolution","tag-togo"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@afrique\/117214383025210401","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}