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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Malawi 10 February 2016 , the newly appointed AU-SARO Regional Delegate, H.E. Dr. Ngomo Auguste, paid a courtesy call on the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Republic of Malawi, Hon. Dr. George T. Chaponda, MP to present his accreditation letter.
Addis Ababa 8 February 2016 - The African Union Commission (AUC) and the Government of New Zealand have published the third edition of the African Union Handbook 2016 - a comprehensive and up-to-date guide to the African Union system.
Copies of the handbook were distributed to Heads of State and Foreign Ministers at the opening of the January Summit at the AU Headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
This year’s edition is published in both English and French. For the second year running the Government of Cameroon has provided support for the French edition.
Addis Ababa, 28 January 2016: H.E. Dr. Aisha Laraba Abdullahi, Commissioner for Political Affairs of the African Union Commission met with Mr. Savas Metin, Secretary General of KismeYok Mu. He was accompanied by the Regional Director for Africa.
The Commissioner for Political Affairs welcomed Delegation and thanked them for their continuous visits to the Department of Political Affairs (DPA) of the African Union Commission (AUC). Dr. Abdullahi also thanked the Secretary General for the humanitarian aid provided the Saharawi Refugees in Algeria.
Addis Ababa, 28 January 2016: H.E. Dr. Aisha Laraba Abdullahi, Commissioner for Political Affairs of the African Union Commission met with H.E. Ivan Simonovic, UN Assistant Secretary General for Human Rights. The UN Assistant Secretary General was accompanied by the Director of Africa Branch of the OHCHR and other human rights experts.
Addis Ababa 31 January 2016- The African Union Heads of State and Government during their Twenty-Sixth Ordinary Session on 31 January 2016 in Addis Ababa adopted the African Space Policy and Strategy as the first of the concrete steps to realize an African Outer space Programme, as one of the flagship programmes of the AU Agenda 2063.
Addis Ababa, 27 January 2016: H.E. Dr. Aisha Laraba Abdullahi, Commissioner for Political Affairs of the African Union Commission met with H.E. Mr. Kristian Jensen, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Denmark. The Minister was accompanied by a high-level delegation.
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA- 1 February 2016 – The African Leaders Malaria Alliance (ALMA) gathered Saturday at the 26th African Union Summit to celebrate unprecedented progress against malaria in Africa.
Thirty-four Heads of State and Delegation joined the annual meeting, which was chaired by H.E. Hailemariam Dessalegn, Prime Minister of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, the current chair of ALMA. During the meeting, the incoming Chairperson of the African Union, H.E. Idriss Déby President of Chad was appointed to take over as the next chair of ALMA.
Addis Ababa 31stJanuary 2016 - The Organization of African First Ladies against HIV/AIDS (OAFLA) held its 16th General Assembly from 30 to 31January 2016 under the theme “Advancing sustainable Partnership to end pediatric AIDS and improve Adolescent Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights”.
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 31 January 2016: The two day meeting of the 26th Ordinary session of the Assembly of the African Union officially came to an end today 31 January, 2016 at the African Union Commission Headquarters in Addis Ababa Ethiopia.
The closing ceremony witnessed the appreciation ceremony for stakeholders who supported the African Union’s intervention in the Ebola epidemic.
