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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Statement by Vera Songwe United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa(ECA)
The 36th Ordinary Session of the African Union (AU) Executive Council officially opened today, at the AU Headquarters in Addis Ababa. The meeting is being held under the AU Theme of the Year 2020, “Silencing the Guns: Creating Conducive Conditions for Africa’s Development”.
Mr. Chairman of the Executive Council,
Distinguished Members of Council,
Mr. Deputy Chairperson of the AU Commission,
Commissioners,
Chairman of the Permanent Representatives Committee,
Members of the PRC,
Heads of Organ of the African Union,
Chief Executives of the Regional Economic Communities,
Invited Guests,
Ladies and Gentlemen,
The African Union (AU) in 2009, responded to the crisis of high maternal deaths by placing maternal death firmly on its agenda and launched the Campaign for the Accelerated Reduction of Maternal Mortality in Africa (CARMMA).
The Minister of External Relations of the Republic of Cameroon, Lejeune. MBELLA MBELLA on 5 February 2020, signed two AU Treaties. The signing ceremony took place at the AU Headquarters in Addis Ababa, at the margin of the 33rd AU Summit.
They are:
1. The Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Older Persons; and
2. The Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Persons with Disability in Africa
Launch of AU Treaties Website
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Economic Integration and Institutional Transformation for reaching the development goals of Agenda 2063
33rd #AUSummit #SilencingTheGuns
Leveraging the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) in Silencing the Guns in Africa.
