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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A team of experts from the GMES and Africa programme of the African Union Commission are among hundreds of delegates attending the Africa-GIS 2019 Conference in the Rwandan capital, Kigali.
DRC government lends its support to the Africa Against Ebola Forum
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 18 November 2019- On 2 December 2019, H.E Mr. Moussa Faki Mahamat, Chairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC) will host the Africa Against Ebola: A Private Sector and Partners forum at the African Union (AU) headquarters in Addis Ababa.
The main objective of the forum is to mobilize the necessary financial and material support for the Ebola crisis in the DRC and the surrounding region.
The eighth Steering Committee meeting of the AU-PATTEC was held on 28th September 2019 at the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) Conference Centre back to back with the 35th ISCTRC and 18th PATTEC Coordinators’ meeting. The key PATTEC Steering Committee members shown in Appendix 2 were present and the agenda was fully discussed. The Steering Committee meeting was chaired by Professor Ahmed Elsawalhy, Director of AU-IBAR on behalf of H.E. Amb. Josefa L.C. Sacko, Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture.
The PATTEC Coordination Office held its 2nd consultative meeting on the development of a successor PATTEC strategic plan in Harare, Zimbabwe, on 11 – 13 November 2019. Selected PATTEC Coordinators including Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Senegal, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe; invited Tsetse experts; representative of Regional Economic Communities (RECs) and staff of PATTEC Coordination Office attended the meeting.
