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.
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Excellency Uhuru Kenyatta, President of the Republic of Kenya,
The President of United Cities and Local Government of Africa,
Distinguished Regional Governors and Mayors.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Purpose
The purpose of this briefing note is to share a Policy Brief titled: Will Biomass Always Fuel Africa? and a Strategic Framework for Bioenergy Data Management (AFBIDM) in Africa published by the African Energy Commission in March 2022.
Ms Bekele-Thomas is the first woman to lead the African Union’s development agency. She was appointment and endorsed as the new Chief Executive Officer of AUDA-NEPAD by the African Union Heads of State and Government during the Thirty-Fifth Ordinary Session of the African Union summit, in February 2022. She succeeds Dr Ibrahim Assane Mayaki as CEO of AUDA-NEPAD.
What: The Fourth Ordinary Session of the Specialized Technical Committee on Health, Population and Drug Control (STC-HPDC-4)
When: 30 May – 1 June 2022
Where: Virtually
Who: The African Union Commission, Department of Health, Humanitarian Affairs and Social Development
Theme: “Advancing health security and the socio-economic well-being of Africa’s population: Value of nutrition as an intervention”
Slogan: Nutrition for Socio-Economic Development
The working relationship between the African Union Commission (AUC) and the republic of Mozambique continues to be strengthened. Mozambique is hosting SADC’s Humanitarian and Emergency Operations Centre (SHOC).
A team from the African Union Commission (AUC’s) Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Unit recently undertook a joint mission together with the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) to assess drought situations in three provinces within Southern Angola. This followed by an invitation from the government of Angola from 22-29 April 2022.
The African Union Commission, through the Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Unit, participated in the just ended Sahel Regional Workshop in Dakar, Senegal from 26-29 April 2022. The overall objective of the regional workshop was to build the capacity of national and regional stakeholders on harmonisation of disaster risk data and information management systems at the national and regional level to promote risk-informed and sustainable development in western Sahel and in the Lake Chad Basin.
Addis Ababa, 16 May 2022: The Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat, congratulates H.E. Hassan Sheikh Mohamud on his historic election as the President of the Federal Republic of Somalia, which was conducted by the Senate and House of the People on Sunday, 15 May 2022.
The Chairperson commends the outgoing President, H.E. Mohamed Abdullahi "Farmaajo" for demonstrating strong leadership and statesmanship through his gracious acceptance of the election outcome.
ONLINE REGISTRATION FOR JOURNALISTS NOW OPEN
The Information and Communication Directorate (ICD) of the African Union Commission (AUC) hereby announces that the online registration for journalists interested to cover the Extra Ordinary Summit on Terrorism and Unconstitutional Changes of Regime in Africa scheduled to take place from 23-28 May 2022 has been launched on the AU website.
