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.
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The Board of African Union Leadership Academy (AULA) held its second annual meeting at the AU headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on Thursday, August 15, 2019, to discuss the way forward on how to strategically position the AULA to complement the effort of the African Union to achieve its set goals.
WHAT: World Humanitarian Day Celebration
WHO: The African Union (AU)-in collaboration with Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Liaison Office to the AU-is organizing an event at the African Union Headquarters to commemorate women humanitarian workers who have dedicated their lives to assist victims of conflicts and disasters in Africa.
AU-PATTEC organized a regional training workshop for French speaking central Africa countries on application of open source GIS in Tsetse and Trypanosomiasis projects in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia at the AU HQs, from 24- 28 June 2019. The training workshop was attended by participants (data management officers) from Angola, Cameroon, Central Africa, Chad, DRC, Congo-Brazaville, Ethiopia and Gabon who are currently responsible for collecting, organizing, and analyzing and map preparation of T&T data for PATTEC projects. Dr. Gift Wanda,
As the continent commemorates the Third Africa Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) Day in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is imperative to examine the role that civil registration and vital statistics can play in providing real-time information for the monitoring and mitigating the impact of such emergencies.
05 August 2019, Addis Ababa: The Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat welcomes today’s initialling of the constitutional decree between the Sudanese political actors following the political declaration already adopted by the parties.
This development lays the foundations for a democratic transition with a civilian-led government and is an important achievement for Africa in its desire to solve its own problems.
Within the framework of the construction of the new Headquarters of the Commission of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Amb. Abdoulaye Diop, Chief of Staff of the Bureau of the Chairperson of the African Union (AU) Commission, received a delegation of ECOWAS headed by Mr. Pathé Gueye, ECOWAS Commissioner for Infrastructure accompanied by Mr. Vafolay Tulay, ECOWAS Commissioner for General Administration and Conferences.
Validation Workshop of the Study on Peace Education and the State of Protection of Education from Attacks in Africa
Message of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission Moussa Faki Mahamat on the Occasion of the Pan-African Women’s Day 31 JULY 2019
Fellow Africans, dear sisters and brothers,
