South Africa

Cape Town, 31 July 2016 - The African Union Drug Control Programme Management Unit in the Department of Social Affairs is organising a Drug Use Epidemiology network Planning Meeting and Continental Technical Experts Consultation on Drug Demand Reduction from 1-5 August 2016 in Cape Town, South Africa. The Meeting will be held in two segments as follows: 1. 01-02 August 2016 - Drug Use Epidemiology Network Planning Meeting 2.

African Union to launch African Minerals Development Centre and Commodities Strategy

Johannesburg, South Africa 1 June, The African Union is to launch an African Minerals Development Centre so as to ensure that African Governments are better equipped to negotiate better mining and exploration terms and contracts. This emerged at the second edition of the Junior Indaba, which is a gathering of small and medium sized mining players.

Pretoria, South Africa, 10 – 11 May 2016: - The 2nd Meeting of the Bureau of the 4th Pan-African Cultural Congress (PACC4) kicked off on May 10, 2015 in Pretoria, South Africa. The two (2) days meeting was jointly organized by the AU Department of Social Affairs and the Government of South Africa, through its Department of Arts and Culture.

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LAUNCH OF 50 AFRICAN UNION YOUTH CLUBS AND THE AFRICAN YOUTH CONTINENTAL PUBLICATION ‘I AFRICA’

Johannesburg, South Africa 4th April 2016: The African Union Commission in collaboration with The African Union Youth Club (AUYCs) at the University of Cape Town partnered for an important launch of 50 AUYCs and an African youth continental publication, ‘I Africa’, held at the historic Constitution Hill on 26 March 2016.