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.
Addis Ababa, 3 June 2018: The Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat, regrets the incidents that occurred during the demonstration organised by the opposition in Bamako, on 2 June 2018. He wishes speedy recovery to those who were injured in the course of those incidents.
Addis Ababa, 3 June 2018: The Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat, received, yesterday, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation and Francophonie, in charge of the Diaspora, of the Union of the Comoros, Mohamed Souef el-Amine.
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Addis Ababa, 21 May 2018: A delegation of students from the Department of Political Science, University of British Columbia (UBC) in Canada, on 18 May 2018, visited the African Union Headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
The students, led by Dr. Katharina P. Coleman, Associate Professor in Political Science, University of British Columbia, were on a study trip to the AU headquarters to learn more about the activities of the Union, as part of a course on “African Security from African Perspectives”.
New York, 25 May 2018 - The AU Permanent Observer Mission to the UN, the African Group of Ambassadors, and the African Ambassadors Spouses Group in partnership with the Universal Peace Federation hosted dignitaries, the African diaspora, and guests to a gala night in celebration of Africa Day 2018 at the Manhattan Center, New York on May 25, 2018.
Addis Ababa, 26 May 2018: The Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat, today received from the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Rwanda, Louise Mushikiwabo, the instruments of ratification of the Agreement on the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) and the Protocol on Free Movement of Persons and the African Passport. Rwanda is the third member state to ratify the AfCFTA, after Ghana and Kenya, and the first to do so as far as the Protocol on Free Movement of Persons and the African Passport is concerned.
MEDIA ADVISORY
CELEBRATION OF AFRICA DAY ON 25 MAY 2018, AT THE AFRICAN UNION HEADQUARTERS
INVITATION TO REPRESENTATIVES OF THE MEDIA
WHAT: Celebration of Africa Day observed every 25 May
WHEN: Friday, 25 May 2018
Time: 11:00am
WHERE: African Union Headquarters, Addis Ababa (Nelson Mandela Hall, NCC)
WHO: Organized by the African Union Commission (AUC)
Fellow Africans,
My Dear Sisters and Brothers on the Motherland
and in the African Diaspora,
It gives me great pleasure to greet you on this auspicious day, as together we commemorate the fifty-fifth anniversary of the establishment of the Organization of African Unity, now the African Union, and pay tribute to the Founding Fathers and to those who, in the dawn of the 20th century, initiated this remarkable pan-African journey.
Addis Abeba, 18 May 2018 – The Chairperson of the African Union Commission, H.E. Moussa Faki Mahamat received the letters of credence of H.E. Mr. Mohamed Arrouchi, newly appointed by His Majesty King Mohammed VI, as the Permanent Representative of Morocco to the African Union.
