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African Union consults regional and continental partners on the Common Africa Position to end TB

November 08, 2017

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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.

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The African Union and CSVR Host the First Continental Forum on Transitional Justice

October 22, 2017

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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.

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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

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.

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October 02, 2017

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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)

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,

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October 02, 2017

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9th AU Private Sector Forum & African Leaders in Dialogue Dinner

November 13, 2017 to November 15, 2017

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“Accelerating Africa’s Industrialization through Digitalization and Youth Techpreneurship”

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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.

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Capacity building workshop focused on results based management For more efficiency and better results

August 28, 2017

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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”.

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The 3rd Continental Free Trade Area Technical Working Groups (CFTA-TWGs) undertake to Move Forward the CFTA Process

August 22, 2017

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Durban, South Africa, 21 August 2017- The African Union Commission is organizing the third Meeting of the Continental Free Trade Area Technical Working Groups (CFTA-TWGs) from 21 August – 01 September 2017 in Durban. The objective of the Meeting is to continue the work that has already been undertaken since the beginning of the CFTA process by providing inputs to the relevant annexes and appendices of the CFTA Agreement for consideration by the CFTA Negotiating Forum.

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Dot Africa Champion Takes a Bow at Award Ceremony

June 30, 2017

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Johannesburg, 30 June 2017: Moctar Yedaly, Head of Information Society in the Department of Infrastructure and Energy of the African Union Commission has been awarded the Eagle of “DotAfrica AVANTE GARDE” at a Ceremony held to recognize the contribution of African Experts in the implementation of the Dot African Domain Name in the margins of the 59th Meeting of the Internet Corporation of Assignment Names and Numbers (ICANN 59) in Johannesburg.

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