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AU Member Countries Create History by massively signing the AfCFTA Agreement in Kigali
Kigali, Rwanda, 21 March 2018: Close to Fifty (50) African Union Member States have signed the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), the Kigali Declaration and the Free Movement Protocol by order of interest, during the official opening ceremony of the 10th Extraordinary Summit of the AU Assembly of Heads of State and Government held on 21 March 2018, in Kigali, Republic of Rwanda. A majority of the African countries signed all the three legal instruments while some signed two and the others signed one of the three instruments.
The Chairperson meets Mauritania's president in Nouakchott ahead of G5Sahel meeting
The Chairperson meets Mauritania's president in Nouakchott ahead of G5Sahel meeting
The African Union Legal Counsel Went to The Hague to Submit the First Written Statement prepared by African Union on the Chagos Archipelago Advisory Opinion
Addis Ababa, 4 March 2018 – The African Union Commission (AUC) would like to announce to all Member States the historic submission of the First Written Statement of the African Union to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on the advisory Opinion on the legal consequences of the separation of Chagos Archipelago from Mauritius in 1965.
Speech of the Director for Infrastructure and Energy Mr. Cheikh Bedda On the occasion of the Experts’ Meeting of The First Ordinary Session of the STC-TTIET Sub-Committee on Energy
Allocution de bienvenue Mme Lilia Hachem Naas, Directrice bureau Afrique du Nord de la Commission Economique pour l’Afrique Première session extraordinaire du sous comite énergie du Comité technique spécialisé (CTS) de l’Union Africaine
The First Ordinary Session of the Sub-Committee on Energy of the Specialized Technical Committee on Transport, Transcontinental and Interregional Infrastructure, Energy and Tourism (STC-TTIIET) Nouakchott,
Energy Experts call for intensified cooperation in the continent
Nouakchott, Mauritania, 21 March 2018: “The African Union Commission urges all stakeholders in the Energy Sector to harmonise and coordinate all their financial and human resources to achieve the common goal of ensuring energy access and security on the continent”. These were the views of the Director of Infrastructure and Energy at the African Union Commission, Mr.
Communiqué on Rwanda's Contribution to the G5 Sahel Joint Force
Addis Ababa, 22 March: The Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat, wishes to commend the President Paul Kagame of Rwanda, Chairperson of the African Union, for his country’s contribution of one million US dollars in support of the operationalisation of the G5 Sahel joint force. He stresses that this contribution is a strong expression of solidarity with the G5 Sahel countries in their fight against terrorism and organized crime. Rwanda also pledged to provide in-kind support.