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Agenda 2063 is Africa’s development blueprint to achieve inclusive and sustainable socio-economic development over a 50-year period.
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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.
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INVITATION FOR MEDIA REPRESENTATIVES
What: Official opening ceremony of the Twenty Sixth (26th) Ordinary General Assembly of the Organization of African First Ladies for Development (OFLAD), will hold under the theme: “Twenty years in the service of the most vulnerable of Africa”
When: Sunday 06 February 2022.
Time: as from 08:30 am
Where: Plenary Hall of the Old Conference Building, African Union Headquarters, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Who: The 26th Ordinary General Assembly of OAFLAD is organized by the Organization of African First Ladies for Development
Highlights of the event:
The opening ceremony will feature the following :
• Welcome remarks by Her Excellency, Zinash Tayachew, First Lady of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
• Opening remarks by the outgoing President of OAFLAD and introduction of the new OAFLAD President, Vice President and OAFLAD Steering Committee.
• Statement by the incoming President of OAFLAD
• Greetings from the African Union Commission represented by Her Excellency Madam Minata Cessouma Samate, Commissioner for Health, Humanitarian Affairs and Social Development of the AUC
• Group photo
Journalists are invited to cover the opening session of the 26th Ordinary General Assembly of the Organization of African First Ladies for Development (OAFLAD) on Sunday, 6th February 2022 at 8:30 am
For further information please contact:
Mrs. Nardos Berhanu |Communications Officer | OAFLAD | Tel:+251-115-508069/+251-118-962998|Mob: +251-911-657261| E-mail: nardos@oaflad.org |www.oaflad.org | Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Mrs. Rahel Akalewold | Information and Communication Directorate | African Union Commission | Tel: +251 911 683737 E-mail: Rahela@africa-union.org| Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Information and Communication Directorate, African Union Commission I E-mail: DIC@africa-union.org
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Agenda 2063 is Africa’s development blueprint to achieve inclusive and sustainable socio-economic development over a 50-year period.