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Nairobi, Kenya March 1, 2022:  The 7th edition of Africa’s premier infrastructure event for the Program for Infrastructure Development in Africa, (PIDA) Week has begun on 28^th February in the Kenya capital, Nairobi. Under the theme ‘Putting Africa on a Firm Footing for Recovery, Growth, and Resilience through Infrastructure’, the conference aimed at assessing and tracking the status of financial investments in infrastructure development in Africa.

The facilities for the Africa Multi-hazard Early Warning and Early Action Systems (AMHEWAS) Situation Room for disaster  risk reduction have been handed over to the African Union Commission (AUC) by the Government of Italy. The event took place on Monday, February 28 at the AU Compound in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

The Peace and Security Council (PSC) of the African Union (AU) will hold its fourth open session on youth, peace and security on 3^rd March 2022 on the progress made in the implementation of the Continental Framework for Youth, Peace and Security and its 10-Year Implementation Plan. The PSC will also officially welcome the second cohort of African Youth Ambassadors for Peace (AYAPs), who were selected following a competitive process in November 2021 and endorsed by the 35th Ordinary Session of the AU Heads of State and Government in February 2022.

One of the African continent’s biggest export, music, will add flavor and colour to the African Honour Day at Expo 2020 Dubai. An epic celebration of African music and talent as the African Union (AU) continues to commemorate its 20^th anniversary.

African Union (AU) and Dubai Expo partner  and Africa’s premium entertainment youth and culture brand, MTV Base, with the sponsored by the Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (BADEA) to commemorate the continent's first-ever participation at the world expo event on Sunday, 27 February 2022.