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.
The AU offers exciting opportunities to get involved in determining continental policies and implementing development programmes that impact the lives of African citizens everywhere. Find out more by visiting the links on right.
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Africa has progressive normative frameworks that guarantee gender equality in social, economic and political affairs. Through years of activism and legal reforms, many countries are seeing progress in terms of women’s rights and status in societies.
The African continent's dependence on natural resources and rain-fed agriculture has calls for urgency in meeting commitments to climate action and disaster risk reduction.
International Women’s Day High Level Couch Talk. Convened under the theme “Gender Equality Today for a Sustainable Tomorrow: Innovative Solutions for Financial and Economic Inclusion for African Women”
The 7th African Day of School Feeding was celebrated on 1st March 2022 under the theme of ‘’Nutrition and human capital development in Africa through increased investment in home-grown school feeding”,
This serves to inform all members of the media that the Africa CDC weekly press briefing to share updates on COVID-19 response in Africa will NOT hold for this week, as the director, Dr John Nkengasong is unavailable.
The briefing will resume on next Thursday, 10th March 2022 at the same time (12:00 -1:00pm EAT), please plan to join us.
Apologies for any inconvenience this change may cause.
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Nairobi, Kenya March 1, 2022: The 7th edition of Africa’s premier infrastructure event for the Program for Infrastructure Development in Africa, (PIDA) Week has begun on 28th February in the Kenya capital, Nairobi. Under the theme ‘Putting Africa on a Firm Footing for Recovery, Growth, and Resilience through Infrastructure’, the conference aimed at assessing and tracking the status of financial investments in infrastructure development in Africa.
Johannesburg, South Africa, 26 February 2022. The African Union High-Level Panel on Illicit Financial Flows (HLP-IFFs) from Africa, under the leadership of H.E. Mr Thabo Mbeki, Former President of the Republic of South Africa and Chair of HLP-IFFs, on Wednesday, 23 February 2022, engaged members of its Working Group on Implementation of the Common African Position on Asset Recovery (CAPAR) to review achievements until date and discuss further actions in supporting African Union Member States to recover their stolen assets from foreign jurisdictions.
