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2025 Theme of the Year: "2025 Year of Reparations: Justice for Africans & People of African Descent through Reparations.

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African Union Office of the Youth Envoy and African Leadership Institute Launch a Report on “Greater Inclusion of African Youth in Public Service and Governance”

August 27, 2020
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‘Youth inclusion should be institutionalized and fast-tracked.’ As part of its mandate, The ​African Union Office of the Youth Envoy ​and the ​African Leadership Institute with support of the African Union, Department of Political Affairs hosted a two-day virtual engagement to launch the '​Greater Inclusion of African Youth in Public Service and Governance Report.'

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Opening Remarks for the Chairman of Ataf Mr Muhammad Mamman Nami on the Occasion of The 4th Ataf High-Levl Tax Policy Dialogue

August 26, 2020
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• Your Excellency, Professor Victor Harrison, Commissioner, Economic Affairs, African Union Commission

• Honourable Ken Ofori-Atta, Minister for Finance and Economic Planning of the Republic of Ghana

• Honourable Dr David Masondo, Deputy Minister of Finance of the Republic of South Africa

• Mr Logan Wort, the Executive Secretary of the African Tax Administration Forum

• Commissioners-General of African Tax Administrations,

• Heads of Multilateral Organisations

• Distinguished Invited Guests,

Ladies and Gentlemen

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Taxing the digital economy: COVID-19 heightens need to expand resource mobilization base

August 24, 2020
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The COVID-19 pandemic has brought to the fore, the focus on the rapidly growing shift to a digitalised economy across the globe. The social and economic lockdowns imposed by government worldwide has pushed many individuals and companies onto online platforms to conduct their business. While other sectors of the economy have come to a standstill, the digital sector has boomed. This has huge implications for business models going forward, and makes it even more urgent that solutions be found for the taxation of the digital economy that are equitable for source and market jurisdictions.

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Communiqué of the Bureau of the Assembly of the African Union (AU) Heads of State and Government with Chairpersons of Regional Economic Communities (RECs) of the African Union held on 20 August 2020

August 20, 2020
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Outgoing Ambassador of Norway pays a farewell call on the Deputy Chairperson of the Commission

July 22, 2020
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The outgoing Norwegian Permanent Representative to the African Union, H.E. Mr. Morten Aasland paid a farewell call on H.E. Mr. Kwesi Quartey, Deputy Chairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC) at AU Headquarters as he ends his tour of duty.

After the exchange of pleasantries, the Deputy Chairperson congratulated Ambassador Aasland for his successful tour of duty in Africa’s diplomatic capital - Addis Ababa and commended his sterling contribution towards strengthening the existing diplomatic, political as well as economic relations between Norway and Africa.

Africa Urged to Avoid Prevention Fatigue as Countries Begin to Ease Lockdowns

August 22, 2020
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The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, AfricaCDC has urged the continent to avoid coronavirus "prevention fatigue".

At a media conference on Thursday 20th August, Director of the AfricaCDC, Dr John Nkengasong noted “a slight decrease” in infection rates on the continent, and said this "gives some signs of hope that we are beginning to bend the curve slowly".

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Saving lives, economies and livelihoods campaign launches in Africa

August 21, 2020
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ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA, 21 AUGUST 2020 H.E. Amira Elfadil Mohammed, Commissioner for Social Affairs, African Union Commission; H.E. Dr Amani Abou-Zeid, Commissioner for Infrastructure and Energy; and Dr John Nkengasong, Director of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) launched the “Africa Against COVID-19: Saving Lives, Economies and Livelihoods” campaign during the Africa CDC weekly press briefing on COVID-19 on 20th August.

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The African Women Leaders Network – a movement for the transformation of Africa

August 11, 2020
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The year 2020 began on a high note for the African Women Leaders Network (AWLN). As the world was preparing to mark 25 years since the Fourth World Conference on Women, AWLN sought to commemorate the anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action with the launch of 25 National Chapters across Africa.

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