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Call for Experts: African Union Cyber Security Expert Group

The African Union is calling for ICT Experts to join the African Union Cyber Security Expert Group. This is an exciting opportunity to advise the AUC on matters related to Cyber security, Cybercrime, Cyber-legislations, Online privacy and Data protection among other digital policy related issues. The AUCSEG will have up to 15 members and will serve in a voluntary, independent, personal, and individual capacity. Members of the AUCSEG must represent the 5 African regions namely Northern, Southern, Central, Eastern and Western. Two seats will be reserved for each region.

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Statement by the Chairperson of the Commission on the attacks against civilians in Burayu, Ethiopia

September 19, 2018
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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.

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Press Statement on the Italian Deputy Prime Minister comments on African Migrants

September 18, 2018
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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.

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Trauma management and care for the critically injured dominates discussions at the African Union.

September 16, 2018
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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.

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Signature of the Framework Cooperation Agreement between the AUC Department of Economic Affairs and the Turkish Embassy

September 10, 2018
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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.

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Tunisia Ambassador Bids Farewell to the African Union

September 04, 2018
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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.

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The AU makes oral submission before the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court

September 10, 2018
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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”.

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