Ethiopia's regional states, with the Sidama Zone highlighted in darker purple within the SNNPR
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Tuesday, November 19, 2019
Ethiopia's Sidama Zone Voting on Autonomy (Map)
Update: Check out our follow-up article for results of the referendum!
Monday, November 18, 2019
Bougainville Voting on Independence from Papua New Guinea
Update: The results are in! Read our Bougainville referendum update to find out what happened!
This week, voting will begin in a referendum that could lead to the creation of the world's first widely-accepted new country in almost a decade. Bougainville, a group of islands in the South Pacific, will be voting on independence from Papua New Guinea.
Where did this come from? Is the referendum expected to pass? Will Bougainville really become independent? Read on for all the answers!
Bougainville island and its surroundings could become the world's next independent country (public domain UN map). |
Where did this come from? Is the referendum expected to pass? Will Bougainville really become independent? Read on for all the answers!
Tuesday, November 5, 2019
Fact Check: Is the AfCFTA the World's Second Biggest Free Trade Area?
The AfCFTA is planned to cover almost all of Africa, but doesn't yet. |
That's a lot of members for a free trade area, and everyone seems to be calling it the "world's biggest free trade area since the WTO". But is that label really accurate?
(If you don't want to read the whole article, scroll down to the conclusion for a short summary.)
Sunday, October 27, 2019
Syrian Civil War Map & Timeline: Turkey Enters Northeast - October 2019 (Subscription)
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Research by Djordje Djukic. Map by onestopmap.com, Evan Centanni, and Djordje Djukic
Amid a US withdrawal, Turkey and its rebel allies have begun their long-threatened intervention against Kurdish-led fighters in northeastern Syria, who now have struck a deal with the Assad government to share their territory and jointly fight back against Turkey.
See all this and more on the latest update to PolGeoNow's concise, professional Syrian Civil War control map, which includes a timeline of changes since our previous Syria map report in September, with sources cited.
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Research by Djordje Djukic. Map by onestopmap.com, Evan Centanni, and Djordje Djukic
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- Up-to-date illustration of current territorial control in Syria, color-coded for the Assad government, rebel groups, "Islamic State" (ISIS/ISIL) fighters, and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). Colorblind accessible.
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Monday, October 21, 2019
Mauritius Becomes Full Member of AfCFTA (Map)
Update: As far as can be determined, this map is still accurate as of August 2020, with no news on any deposits of ratification instruments since Mauritius. Angola, Cameroon, and Morocco are all reported to have ratified the AfCFTA treaty, but apparently haven't yet completed their membership by registering with African Union headquarters (the AU's official "status list" for the treaty hasn't been updated since October 2019, and recent reports still put the number of deposits at 28).
In related news, the next stage of the trade area's implementation has been delayed to January 2021, but the organization's headquarters were inaugurated on August 17, 2020 in Accra, Ghana.
In related news, the next stage of the trade area's implementation has been delayed to January 2021, but the organization's headquarters were inaugurated on August 17, 2020 in Accra, Ghana.
Map by Evan Centanni, from blank map by Eric Gaba. License: CC BY-SA |
Mauritius Ratifies AfCFTA Treaty
Two months ago, we reported on this year's creation of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), an African Union (AU) project to increase trade within Africa. Almost all of Africa's countries have signed on to the AfCFTA, but they only become full members once they've ratified its founding treaty (adopted it into their national laws) and formally registered their ratification with the AU.
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