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Opening Remarks by Ms. Kirsi Madi, Director, UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction at the 2018 Africa-Arab Platform on Disaster Risk Reduction

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Your excellency Minister of Local Affairs and Environment, Dr. Riadh Mouakhar,
Your excellency, Ambassador Josefa Sacko, Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture, African Union,
Your excellency, Abdellatif Abid, Assistant Secretary General, League of Arab States,
Honourable Ministers,
Representatives of Member States, Intergovernmental Organizations and Stakeholder Groups,
Distinguished Delegates,
Ladies and Gentlemen,

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October 11, 2018
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Two days meeting with Member States and Secretariats of ECOWAS and EAC on Popularization of the Free Movement Protocol opens in Dakar, Senegal

October 11, 2018
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Dakar, October 11, 2018. A two-day meeting of African Union Member States from East Africa and West Africa regions opens in Dakar, Senegal. The meeting is convened by the African Union Commission’s Department of Political Affairs in close collaboration with the East African Community (EAC) Secretariat and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Commission aimed at the popularization of the Protocol on Free Movement of Persons in Africa.

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Meeting of the Extraordinary Session of the Specialised Technical Committee (STC) on Migration, Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons 29 October - 3 November 2018 Malabo, Equatorial Guinea

October 29, 2018 to November 03, 2018
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Statement of the Chairperson of the Commission on the Establishment by Ethiopia of a Visa on Arrival Regime for all African Citizens

October 11, 2018
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Addis Ababa, 11 October 2018: The Chairperson of the African Union (AU) Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat, welcomes the announcement made, on 8 October 2018, by President Mulatu Teshome to the joint session of the House of People’s Representatives and the House of Federation of Ethiopia regarding the establishment of a visa-on-arrival regime for all African passport holders entering the country starting from the fiscal year 2018-2019.

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Statement of the Chairperson of the Commission on the elections in Cameroon

October 10, 2018
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Addis Ababa, 9 October 2018: The Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat, is closely following developments in Cameroon, after the presidential election of 7 October 2018.

The Chairperson underlines the need for all political stakeholders to exercise maximum restraint and refrain from any statement or action that could heighten tensions. Any claim relating to the electoral process should be handled through the existing legal mechanisms.

Communiqué on the participation of the Chairperson of the Commission in the Summit of La Francophonie in Armenia

October 10, 2018
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Addis Ababa, 10 October 2018: The Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat, arrived today in Yerevan, Armenia, to take part in the 17th Summit of the International Organization of La Francophonie (OIF), on 11 and 12 October 2018. The Chairperson was invited by the Armenian authorities.

Remarks by the Deputy Chairperson of the African Union Commission, H.E Amb. Kwesi Quartey During the Commemoration the 40th Anniversary of Victory in the Karamara Battle and of the Beginning of the Educational Program for the Ethiopians in Cuba.

African Union, 10th October 2018.

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AUC launches the Sustainable Agricultural Mechanization Framework

October 09, 2018
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October 9, 2018; Addis Ababa, Ethiopia – The African Union Commission in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), launched the Sustainable Agricultural Mechanization Framework for Africa, on October 5th in Rome.

The Framework has priority elements that will guide AU Member States when developing their national strategies for sustainable agricultural mechanization and implementing mechanization programmes at country level.

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