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.
Cape Town, South Africa, 5 February 2018 – On the margins of the African Mining Indaba, the African Union Commission, Department of Trade and Industry organized a High level dialogue on Regional Mineral Value Chains in the Context of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA).
Johannesburg, 07 November 2017- The African Union Commission (AUC) convened regional and continental partners last week to discuss joint priorities to support countries end AIDS, TB and Malaria by 2030. In attendance were: African Union Organs, Regional Economic Communities, Regional Health Organisations, development partners, civil society the private sector and invited guests.
Johannesburg, 07 November 2017- The African Union’s Partnership and Coordination Forum on AIDS, TB and Malaria last week reviewed the draft Common Africa Position on TB for the United Nations General Assembly High Level Meeting on TB that is scheduled to take place in 2018. The Draft Common Africa Position on TB was last month reviewed by the Ministry of Health TB Programme Managers in Harare.
Opening and Welcome Remarks: From left to right: Ambassador Salah S. Hammad, AUC-DPA; Nomfundo Mogapi, CSVR Executive Director and John Ikubaje, AUC-DPA Political Officer.
Johannesburg, South Africa, 22 October 2017: The African Union Commission – Department of Political Affairs (AUC-DPA) and the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR) jointly hosted the first Continental Forum on Transitional Justice (TJ) in Africa in Johannesburg, South Africa under the theme The State of Transitional Justice in Africa, from 19-21 October 2017.
Statement Delivered by H.E. Ambassador Albert M. Muchanga, Commissioner for Trade and Industry, African Union Commission at the Trade Law Centre (Tralac) Annual Conference Held at
The Table Bay Hotel, V&A Waterfront, Cape Town, South Africa From 6-7 April, 2017
under the Topic: International Trade Governance – Quo Vadis?
Mr. Chairman;
Executive Director of the Trade Law Centre;
Distinguished Conference Participants;
Ladies and Gentlemen.
Statement by Ambassador Albert M. Muchanga
African Union Commissioner for Trade and Industry
Delivered at the Opening Ceremony of the 2017 Afrimets General Assembly Meeting Held Jointly With the National Metrology Institute of South Africa (Nmisa) 70/10 and African Year of Quality Infrastructure (Ayqi) Celebrations in Pretoria, South Africa on 2 August, 2017.
The Honourable Minister of Trade and Industry, Dr. Rob Davies,
Your Worship the Mayor of Tshwane,
The Chief Executive Officer of the National Metrology Institute of South Africa,
“Accelerating Africa’s Industrialization through Digitalization and Youth Techpreneurship”
Background
We are at a nexus period where the global scale of the Internet, the ubiquity of mobile devices, the ever-declining cost of cloud services, an increasingly networked physical world and artificial intelligence are interconnecting people, processes and things, turning data into knowledge and knowledge into actions revolutionizing all spheres of human activity, society, politics, culture and the economy.
Johannesburg - August 25, 2017 - As part of its relentless efforts to catalyze the genuine result–oriented development of the continent, the African Union has organized a capacity building workshop focused on results based management in order to equip twenty-one key staff members with the necessary tools to foster real change. The said workshop, held from August 14th to 25th, 2017 in Johannesburg, addresses Aspiration 3 of Agenda 2063: “An African continent characterized by good governance, democracy, respect for human rights, justice, and rule of law”.
