African Renaissance Trust
Continental Maps Vault
African Renaissance Trust
Continental Maps Vault
Each story below is anchored on an interactive map — published by the African Renaissance Trust as a public good for donors, policy-makers, advocates and African Union partners. Read a story, embed a map, download the data.
UNDP Gender Inequality Index, women in parliament (IPU Parline), maternal mortality and female labour-force participation across 55 AU member states.
Open vault →Net ODA per capita and as a share of GNI — OECD DAC + World Bank reporting, by recipient African state.
Open vault →Urban population share and growth rate — the defining demographic shift of 21st-century Africa.
Open vault →ND-GAIN Country Index 2023 — vulnerability and readiness across the continent.
Open vault →Global Hunger Index, undernourishment, IPC populations in crisis, child stunting and wasting.
Open vault →The AU’s ten Trans-African Highways rendered as line overlays on a neutral continental base.
Open vault →Major cross-border markets and one-stop border posts driving informal and formal regional trade.
Open vault →Foreign-affairs committee structures across AU member states — IPU Parline + ART desk research.
Open vault →Adolescent birth rates per 1,000 women aged 15–19 — from Tunisia’s 4.3 to the Central African Republic’s 163.
Read story →A proportional-symbol map — from Nigeria’s 228m to Seychelles’ 130,000 — that exposes the continent’s demographic asymmetry.
Read story →46 of 55 AU member states have ratified the Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa. The CAR became the 46th in July 2025.
Read story →AMA opened its doors in Kigali in October 2025. As of January 2026, 31 of 55 AU member states have ratified.
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