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 President William Samoei Ruto (PhD), President of the Republic of Kenya and the African Union Champion on Institutional Reform. H.E. Ruto was appointed during the 37th Assembly of Heads of State and Government in February 2024 to champion the AU Institutional Reform process taking over from the H.E Paul Kagame, President of the Republic of Rwanda who led the implementation of the reform process since 2016.
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.
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The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (the Commission), in accordance with its mandate of promotion and protection of human rights in Africa under Article 45 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights (the African Charter),
The Africa Single Electricity Market (AfSEM) is one of those targeted interventions aimed to facilitate sustainable development of the African electricity sector through the integrated continental electricity market based on the 2019 AfCFTA Agreement. The goal is to give African households, businesses and industries more secure, sustainable, reliable, competitive, and affordable energy.
The African Union (AU) has implored Member States to take decisive action to scale up efforts to address HIV among people who use drugs and in Prisons where prevalence remains higher than in the general population due to several factors such as stigma, discrimination and lack of access to commodities and services resulting in needle sharing.
The Republic of Sierra Leone becomes the eighth (8th) Member State to deposit the instrument of ratification of the African Medicines Agency (AMA). The Republic of Sierra Leone ratified the Treaty for the establishment of AMA on 28 May 2021 in Free Town, Sierra Leone and deposited the instrument of accession, to the Commission of the African Union (AU) on 14 June 2021 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The Office of the Legal Counsel of the African Union Commission received the instrument from Sierra Leone.
Organized by the African Union Commission through its Department of
Infrastructure and Energy.
When: Thursday 3rd June 2021 (12:00-13:00 EAT)
INVITATION TO THE MEDIA REPRESENTATIVES
What: The African Union, the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) are organizing a virtual Continental event to mark the World Day against Child Labour. The event will bring together key actors, who will discuss strategies to address child labour, taking a holistic and systemic approach also based on the 2020 Global Estimates on Child Labour and related recommendations, which had been launched by the ILO and UNICEF on 10 June.
Speakers will include:
June 2021, Addis Ababa: The Chairperson of the African Union Commission Moussa Faki Mahamat, accompanied by Ambassador Adeoye Bankole, Commissioner for Political Affairs, Peace & Security, and other senior AU officials, concluded a two-day working visit to Khartoum today.
During his visit, the Chairperson held extensive consultations with the Chairman and Vice Chairman of the Sovereign Concil, the Prime Minister of the Transition,the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Minister of Irrigation and Water Resources and the Governor of Darfur.
The Republic of Burundi becomes the twentieth (20th) African Union (AU) Member State to sign the Treaty for the establishment of the African Medicines Agency (AMA) on 11 June 2021, at the AU Commission in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
