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. Mr. Paul Kagame, President of the Republic of Rwanda, was appointed to lead the AU institutional reforms process. He appointed a pan-African committee of experts to review and submit proposals for a system of governance for the AU that would ensure the organisation was better placed to address the challenges facing the continent with the aim of implementing programmes that have the highest impact on Africa’s growth and development so as to deliver on the vision of Agenda 2063.
The AU offers exciting opportunities to get involved in determining continental policies and implementing development programmes that impact the lives of African citizens everywhere. Find out more by visiting the links on right.
The 3rd Organization of Africa, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS) and and 1st African Union ClimSA Forum will gather more than three hundred delegates from African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries, as well as partners of the Intra-ACP Climate Services and Related Applications (ClimSA) programme.
The African Union Chairperson's Youth Envoy Ms.Chido Mpemba delivered a compelling address on the sidelines of the opening of the Africa Climate Summit at an event hosted by Her Excellency Madam Rachel Ruto, the First Lady of Kenya.
Enhancing regional infrastructure cooperation, sustainable infrastructure development, and cross-border policy coordination will take center stage at the upcoming ministerial session of the African Union Specialised Technical Committee (STC) on Transport, Transcontinental and Interregional Infrastructure, and Energy, scheduled for the 12-15 September 2023 in Zanzibar, Tanzania.
The Skills Initiative for Africa Financial Cooperation is an African Union Commission intervention implemented by the African Union Development Agency and supported by the German Government and the European Union through KfW Development Bank. The Initiative provides grants for selected projects through a competitive evaluation process in eight African countries.
The first cohort of the Youth Reference Committee was officially launched in July 2023 in partnership with the Austrian National Youth Council. The inaugural committee comprises twenty- five African youth representatives selected from all five African Union regions and 15 European youth representatives. The committee’s 12-month mandate commenced on July 5, 2023, with a Virtual 2-day South-North Dialogue.
The AU-SAFGRAD has concluded a three-day workshop focused on the development of the Framework on Indigenous Conflicts Prevention and Management Mechanisms between Pastoralists and Farmers in the Continent, which was held from 22-24 August 2023, in Nairobi, Kenya.
We are following with great concern the news of the devastating 6.8 magnitude earthquake that struck the Kingdom of Morocco
Fellow Africans on the Continent and in the Diaspora,
9 September 1999, a date with evocative historical resonance of the first political milestone drawn up by our Heads of State and Government on the road leading to the establishment of the African Union.
Addis Ababa, 08 September 2023: The Chairperson of the African Union Commission, H.E. Moussa Faki Mahamat, condems in the strongest possible terms, the barbaric, inhumane and despicable terrorist attacks perpetrated in Bamba (Gao Region), against a boat and a position of the Malian army, killing civilians and soldiers, and causing injuries and extensive material damage on 07 September 2023.
The President of the AU Commission shares in the grief, offers his deepest condolences to the people and Government of Mali, and wishes speedy recovery to the injured.
