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 ministerial meeting reviewed the action plan framework of the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES); and the Africa Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan of Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF).
The Republic of South Sudan has deposited instruments of ratification to the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa, known as the Maputo Protocol, becoming the 44th Member State of the African Union (AU) to ratify the Treaty.
Outbreak Update: As of 3 May 2023, a total of 765,222,932 COVID-19 cases and 6,921,614 deaths (case fatality ratio [CFR]: 1%) have been reported globally by 232 countries and territories to the World Health Organization (WHO).
Honourable Madam Philda Nani Kereng, Minister of Environment and Tourism
Honourable Ministers
H.E. Birgitte Markussen, Ambassador and Head of EU Delegation to the African Union
H.E. Hans Lundquist, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Sweden to
Ethiopia and to the African Union
H.E. Mrs Kira Sindbjerg, Ambassador of Denmark
Honourable Ministers, Excellencies, Distinguished Senior Officials, Ladies and Gentlemen,
On behalf of the Secretary-General of the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS) - HE Georges Rebelo Pinto Chikoti, I am honoured to stand before you today to make a few remarks at the opening of the High-Level Ministerial segment of this important “Africa Conference on the implementation of the outcomes of the CBD COP15 and CITES COP19”
H.E. Moussa Faki Mahamat, AUC Chairperson
H.E. Birgitte Markussen, Ambassador and Head of EU Delegation to the African Union
H.E. Hans Lundquist, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Sweden to Ethiopia and to the African Union
H.E. Goerges Rebelo Pinto Chikoti, Secretary-General, Oganisation of the African, Caribbean and Pacific States
H.E. Ivonne Higuero, Executive Secretary of CITES Secretariat
The African Union has concluded a three-day meeting of the Specialized Technical Committee on Finance, Monetary Affairs, Economic Planning and Integration- Sub-Committee on Tax and Illicit Financial Flows under the theme “Tax in Africa: contemporary issues affecting the continent” and adopted recommendations that ensure African interests are protected in the design and implementation of the global tax rules, and ways to improve domestic resource mobilization for Afr
The Expanded Mechanism for the Resolution of the Conflict in Sudan convened its third meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The meeting was chaired by Professor Mohamed El-Hacen Lebatt, Spokesperson for the AU Process for Sudan
