Promoting Africa’s growth and economic development by championing citizen inclusion and increased cooperation and integration of African states.
Promoting Africa’s growth and economic development by championing citizen inclusion and increased cooperation and integration of African states.
Agenda 2063 is the blueprint and master plan for transforming Africa into the global powerhouse of the future. It is the strategic framework for delivering on Africa’s goal for inclusive and sustainable development and is a concrete manifestation of the pan-African drive for unity, self-determination, freedom, progress and collective prosperity pursued under Pan-Africanism and African Renaissance.
H.E. Mr. Paul Kagame, President of the Republic of Rwanda, was appointed to lead the AU institutional reforms process. He appointed a pan-African committee of experts to review and submit proposals for a system of governance for the AU that would ensure the organisation was better placed to address the challenges facing the continent with the aim of implementing programmes that have the highest impact on Africa’s growth and development so as to deliver on the vision of Agenda 2063.
The AU offers exciting opportunities to get involved in determining continental policies and implementing development programmes that impact the lives of African citizens everywhere. Find out more by visiting the links on right.
The African Union (AU) Youth for Peace Africa Programme, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), and the United Nations Office to the African Union (UNOAU) have launched a serious game known as “Mission55 Conflict in Anaka”, to commemorate the International Day of Peace (Peace Day) 2022.
The Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) data collection workshop on the development of the 2nd Africa Biennial report on Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) took place from 12-13 September 2022 in Maputo, Mozambique
The African Union Commission (AUC) through its Department of Agriculture, Rural Development, Blue Economy and Sustainable Environment (ARBE) recently made its presentation to the Pan-African Parliament.
African Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) in eastern and southern Africa have been prompted to support and promote the implementation of the African Union’s Free Movement Protocol (FMP) and the Migration Policy Framework for Africa (MPFA).
The workshop will provide stakeholders with a platform for discussion and feedback on the mapping report and its validation. The workshop will also present the next steps in formulating the Five-year Strategic Plan of the African Centre for the Study and Research on Migration in Mali, and will provide participants the opportunity to discuss key areas of the strategy.
The Department of Political Affairs, Peace and Security (PAPS) of the African Union Commission (AUC) has deployed an Electoral Assistance Mission to support the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) ahead of the 7 October 2022 General Elections in the Kingdom of Lesotho.
The Common African Position on Asset Recovery (CAPAR) implementation stakeholder’s collaboration workshop was co-organized by African Union Commission through its Department of Political Affairs, Peace & Security, the African Union Advisory Board against Corruption, the Office National de Recouvrement des Avoirs (ONRAC) (National Asset Recovery Office) of the Republic of Senegal and the German Agency for International Cooperation or (GIZ).
77th Session of the United Nations General Assembly address by H.E. Macky Sall, President of the Republic of Senegal, Current Chairman of the African Union
Theme : A watershed moment: transformative solutions to interlocking challenges
New York, 20 September 2022
Mr. President of the General Assembly,
Dear Colleagues,
The African Union Commission Department of Health, Humanitarian Affairs and Social Development (HHS), Labour, Employment and Migration Division (LEM) and the International Organization on Migration (IOM) organized a 3-day symposium on the Effective and Rights-Based Migration Governance: Return, Readmission, and Reintegration (RRR) in Pretoria, South Africa, from 14 – 16 September 2022.
