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 President William Samoei Ruto (PhD), President of the Republic of Kenya and the African Union Champion on Institutional Reform. H.E. Ruto was appointed during the 37th Assembly of Heads of State and Government in February 2024 to champion the AU Institutional Reform process taking over from the H.E Paul Kagame, President of the Republic of Rwanda who led the implementation of the reform process since 2016.
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The African Union Commission (AUC) and the World Bank have marked a significant milestone in their partnership with the signing today of a grant agreement to support the implementation of the Africa Think Tank Platform Project aimed to help think tanks across the continent to produce policy-relevant research on critical cross-border priority issues.
Africa is committed to accelerate the establishment of its own financial institutions to address the existing challenges of the current global financial architecture that does not favor Africa’s transformation and development needs.
The Chairperson of AUC, Moussa Faki Mahamat, is very concerned about the continuous tension in Eastern DRC and reiterates his call for rapid de-escalation.
He calls upon regional leaders, particularly those of DRC and Rwanda, to prioritize dialogue in the framework of the two African mechanisms led by President João Lourenço of Angola and Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya, with the goal of agreeing, in a collaborative and fraternal spirit, on a reasonable pathway to settle political differences, whatever their nature.
E. Moussa Faki Mahamat , Chairperson of the African Union Commission;
E. Girma Amenete, Minister of Agriculture and Natural Resources of Ethiopia;
E. Dr. Fikru Regassa , State Minister of Ministry of Agriculture of Ethiopia;
E. Monique Nsanzabaganwa, Deputy Chairperson of African Union Commission;
AUC Commissioners and Director General;
E. Mikael Cleverly, United State Chargé d ’Affaires to African Union;
Major General Kenneth Ekman, Director of Strategy, Engagement and Programs of the United States Africa Command,
H.E. Amb. Josefa Sacko, Commissioner for Agriculture, Rural Development, Blue Economy and Sustainable Environment,
US Chargé d ’Affairs to AU, H.E. Mr. Mikael Cleverly,
Mr. Kingston Reif, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Threat Reduction and Arms Control of the United States,
Dr. Robert Pope, Director of Cooperative Threat Reduction of the United States,
"The launch of the #ICanSurvive Mental Health Toolkit is a significant stride towards confronting the mental health challenges that young Africans face.
The Africa Union Commission and the U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency (US-DTRA) are pleased to announce the ground-breaking ceremony for the new laboratory complex of the Africa Union Pan Veterinary Vaccine Centre (AU-PANVAC). The ceremony is scheduled to take place on the 21st of February 2024 at 09:00, in Bishoftu, Ethiopia.
The 37th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the African Union (AU) kicked off on Saturday 17 February 2024.
