{"id":218742,"date":"2026-01-01T11:03:58","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T09:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/africa-au-commission-chair-welcomes-sudans-peace-initiative-submitted-to-un-security-council\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T11:03:58","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T09:03:58","slug":"africa-au-commission-chair-welcomes-sudans-peace-initiative-submitted-to-un-security-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/africa-au-commission-chair-welcomes-sudans-peace-initiative-submitted-to-un-security-council\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: AU Commission Chair Welcomes Sudan&#8217;s Peace Initiative Submitted to UN Security Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Addis Ababa, December 30, 2025 (SUNA) &#8211; Chair of the African Union (AU) Commission, Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, has welcomed the peace initiative submitted by the Sudanese government to the United Nations Security Council.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">Youssouf described the initiative as a comprehensive framework aimed at safeguarding Sudan&#8217;s unity, sovereignty, and territorial integrity. He noted that the African Union attaches considerable importance to the political, humanitarian, and security components outlined in the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512310537.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Sudan\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/sudan\/\">Sudan<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Addis Ababa, December 30, 2025 (SUNA) &#8211; Chair of the African Union (AU) Commission, Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, has welcomed the peace initiative submitted by the Sudanese government to the United Nations Security Council. Youssouf described the initiative as a comprehensive framework aimed at safeguarding Sudan&#8217;s unity, sovereignty, and territorial integrity. He noted that the African [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":218743,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,6412,6274,6158,9890,257,6157,4586,254,26934,1613,8105,6132],"class_list":["post-218742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-chair","tag-commission","tag-council","tag-initiative","tag-news","tag-peace","tag-security","tag-south-africa-today","tag-submitted","tag-sudan-news","tag-sudans","tag-welcomes"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}