Civil society demands AU, IGAD action on South Sudan transition
South Sudan civil society leader Edmund Yakani has called on the African Union (AU) and the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) to turn their decisions on the country’s peace process into concrete action as the transitional period moves towards elections planned for December 2026. Yakani, the Executive Director of the Community Empowerment for Progress Organization […]
AU welcomes UN resolution promoting equal earth maps worldwide
The African Union has welcomed a United Nations General Assembly resolution encouraging countries and institutions to adopt the Equal Earth projection as a more accurate way of depicting the size of continents on world maps. AU Commission Chairperson Mahmoud Ali Youssouf praised the resolution as an important step towards correcting long-standing distortions in the way […]
