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Regional Cost of Hunger in Africa Reports
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Mali joins call for increased efforts to end the plight of child undernutrition
July 03, 2018
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Bamako, Mali – The economy of Mali is losing 265 billion CFA francs (US$450 million) – more than 4 percent of annual GDP – to the effects of child undernutrition, a multi-agency study has found. The Cost of Hunger in Mali (COHA), blames the losses on increased healthcare costs, additional burdens on the education system and, further down the line, reduced workforce productivity.
The African Union Sub-Committee of Directors General of Customs Express Commitment to Combat Corruption in Customs to effectively implement the AfCFTA
September 21, 2018
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Moroni, Comoros – 21 September 2018. The Department of Trade and Industry of the African Union Commission organized in partnership with Comoros Customs, the 10th African Union Sub-Committee of Directors General of Customs Meeting from 17-21 September 2018 in Moroni under the theme: “Combatting Corruption in Customs to effectively implement the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA)”.
Launch of the UNCTAD Trade Development Report 2018
September 26, 2018
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MEDIA ADVISORY/ N°
Launch of the UNCTAD Trade Development Report 2018
INVITATION TO REPRESENTATIVES OF THE MEDIA
When: 26 September 2018, 10.00 a.m.
Where: Small Conference Room 2 - AU Headquarters, Addis-Ababa, Ethiopia
Who: Organised by the Department of Trade and Industry and in Collaboration with United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
Participants: The event shall be attended by the media.
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Joint Communiqué: Third African Union-European Union-United Nations Trilateral Meeting
September 23, 2018
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1. The Chairperson of the African Union Commission Moussa Faki Mahamat, the President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker and the Secretary-General of the United Nations António Guterres, met on 23 September 2018 at United Nations Headquarters in New York in the margins of the United Nations General Assembly.
Joint Statement: African Union – United Nations in the margins of the seventy-third session of the United Nations General Assembly
September 23, 2018
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1. The Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat, and the Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, met today in New York in the margins of the seventy-third session of the United Nations General Assembly.
2. They discussed issues central to the strategic partnership between the African Union and the United Nations, in line with the two joint frameworks they signed in 2017 and 2018 on peace, security and development.
Training and Sensitization Workshop on the Operational Guidance Note on Codes of Conduct for African Security Institutions 25-26 September 2018 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
African Union to Organize the Africa Industrialization Week 2018 (AIW 2018)
November 19, 2018 to November 23, 2018
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MEDIA ADVISORY
AFRICAN UNION TO ORGANISE THE AFRICA INDUSTRIALIZATION WEEK 2018 (AIW 2018)
INVITATION TO REPRESENTATIVES OF THE MEDIA
What: AFRICA INDUSTRIALIZATION WEEK 2018 (AIW 2018)
When: Sunday 18th – Friday 23rd November 2018
Where: AU Headquarters, Addis-Ababa, Ethiopia
Who: Organized by the Department of Trade and Industry of the African Union Commission (AUC)
JOURNALISTS ARE INVITED TO ATTEND AND COVER THE OPENING CEREMONY AT THE AFRICAN UNION HEADQUARTERS ON 18TH NOVEMBER 2018
Preliminary Statement: African Union Election Observation Mission to the 2018 General Elections in the Kingdom of eSwatini
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