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Kigali, Rwanda, 2nd September 2018: Voting has begun in Rwanda's parliamentary elections, on Sunday, 2nd September 2018, where voters will elect legislators for the 80-seat Chamber of Deputies, 24 of which are reserved for women, two for youth candidates and one for the people with disabilities (PWDs), for a five year term.
MEDIA ADVISORY
Invitation to attend the press conference for the release of the preliminary statement of the African Union Election Observation Mission to
Rwanda’s 2018 Parliamentary Elections
What: Press conference for the release of the African Union Election
Observation Mission’s (AUEOM) preliminary statement.
Who: Head of the AUEOM H.E Mrs. Aichatou Mindaoudou Souleymane,former
Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Niger will present the
statement.
Beijing, 3 September 2018: The Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat, met President Azali Assoumani of the Union of the Comoros this morning in Beijing, on the sidelines of the summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC).
Beijing, 3 September 2018: The African Union Commission Chairperson, Moussa Faki Mahamat, met President Denis Sassou Nguesso of the Republic of Congo, Chair of the African Union High-Level Committee on Libya, this morning in Beijing, on the sidelines of the summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC),.
ALLOCUTION DU PRÉSIDENT DE LA COMMISSION DE L’UNION AFRICAINE, MOUSSA FAKI MAHAMAT, À L’OCCASION DE L’OUVERTURE DU SOMMET DU FORUM SUR LA COOPÉRATION SINO-AFRICAINE, PÉKIN, RÉPUBLIQUE POPULAIRE DE CHINE, LE 3 SEPTEMBRE 2018
Excellence Monsieur Xi Jinping, Président de la République populaire de Chine,
Excellence Monsieur Paul Kagame, Président de la République du Rwanda et Président en exercice de l’Union africaine,
Excellence Monsieur Cyril Ramaphosa, Président de la République d’Afrique du sud et co-Président du FOCAC,
Kinshasa, DRC 25 August 2018- The African Union has begun sending qualified African health workers into the regions of the Democratic Republic of Congo, that are affected by the latest Ebola outbreak to hit the continent.
These are seasoned veterans as some of them were also involved in the 8th epidemic from 2014 to 2016, and the ninth, which occurred earlier this year.
20 health workers left Kinshasa yesterday, and travelled to Beni in North Kivu province in the east of the DRC. A further 15 will follow in the next few days.
Kinshasa, DRC 30 August 2018- The African Union, through the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (AfricaCDC) has conducted a pre deployment orientation and preparation training workshop for health care workers to be deployed to North Kivu and Ituri in the Democratic Republic of Congo, to help international efforts to fight the current outbreak of the Ebola Virus Disease.
Kigali, Rwanda, 30th September 2018 – Head of the African Union Election Observation Mission (AUEOM), H.E Mrs. Aichatou Mindaoudou Souleymane, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Niger arrived in Kigali on 29th September 2018 to lead the AUEOM to Rwanda’s 2018 Parliamentary Elections.
Being present in Kigali since 26th of August, the AUEOM will observe and assess the
2-4 September 2018 Parliamentary Election with a view to contributing to the Peacefulness, transparency and integrity of these elections.
Kigali, Rwanda, 31st August 2018: The African Union Election Observation Mission (AUEOM) to the Parliamentary Elections in the Republic of Rwanda visited the Genocide Memorial Centre in Kigali, on Thursday 30th August 2018, to pay their respect to the victims of the 1994 Genocide.
The Memorial Center is the final resting place for more than 250,000 victims of the Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. It honors the memory of the more than one million Rwandans killed in 1994 through education and peace-building.
