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.
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Addis Ababa, 19 September 2018: The Chairperson of the Commission of the African Union, Moussa Faki Mahamat, has received with utmost sadness and shock the news of the attack during the weekend against innocent civilians in the locality of Burayu, near Addis Ababa, in the course of which a number of people were killed and many others wounded and displaced.
MEDIA ADVISORY
The African Union Commission and The United Arab Emirates Workshop on Preparation for the Dubai Expo 2020
Addis Ababa, 18 September 2018: The African Union Commission expresses dismay at the comments made by the Italian Deputy Prime Minister, Mr. Matteo Salvini, at a recent conference in Vienna at which he likened African immigrants to slaves. It is the view of the African Union that name-calling will not resolve the migration challenges facing Africa and Europe.
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 16 September 2018; Statistics from the World Health Organization indicate that almost 90 percent of deaths globally, are due to fatal injuries and occur in low and middle-income countries. 30 percent of these deaths are linked to road accidents, making them among the top 10 causes of death in low- and middle-income countries.
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 10 September 2018:- Ahead of the 2nd International Turkey-Africa Economic and Business Forum to be held in Istanbul, Turkey from 10-11 October 2018, the Department of Economic Affairs Commissioner Prof. Victor Harison signed on behalf of H.E. Moussa Faki Mahamat, Chairperson of African Union Commission, the Framework Cooperation Agreement with the Government of the Republic of Turkey represented by its Ambassador to Ethiopia and Permanent Representative to the African Union H.E. Fatih Ulusoy.
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 4 September 2018- The outgoing Tunisia Ambassador today bade farewell to the African Union after serving his term as a Permanent Representative to the Union.
H.E. Sahbi Khalfallah, Ambassador of Tunisia to Ethiopia, paid his farewell courtesy calls to H.E Mrs. Minata Cessouma, Commissioner for Political Affairs, at the Union’s headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
The Hague, 10 September 2018 – The Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court (“ICC”) commenced hearing of oral submissions in the “Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan’s Appeal against the Decision under Article 87(7) of the Rome Statute on the Non-Compliance by Jordan with the request by the Court for the Arrest and Surrender of Omar Al-Bashir”.
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 7 September, 2018 - Following its first meeting held from 3-4 May 2017 at African Union Headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the Senate of the Pan African University, which represents the statutory body of the University in charge of academic affairs and research, held its second meeting from 3-4 September 2018, during a workshop for the validation of the Pan African University Research and Publication Policy. The meeting was aimed at reviewing the PAU development policy and more specifically the PAU Research and Publication Policy.
