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 Abéba, le 7 septembre 2018: Le Président de la Commission de l’Union africaine, Moussa Faki Mahamat, prend note avec satisfaction de la démission du Président de la République de Madagascar, Hery Martial Rajaonarimampianina, conformément à la Constitution malgache, et de la désignation, le 7 septembre 2018, du Président du Sénat, Rivo Rakotovao, en tant que Président par intérim de Madagascar.
Addis Ababa, 7 September 2018: The Chairperson of the Commission of the African Union, Moussa Faki Mahamat, is encouraged by the recent positive developments in the Horn of Africa, in particular the improvement of relations between countries of the region.
Yaoundé, 5 September 2018: The Chairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC) H.E Moussa Faki Mahamat has authorized the deployment of a 12-member long-term election observation mission to the presidential elections scheduled to take place on 7 October 2018 in the Republic of Cameroon. Four (4) core team of analysts and eight (8) long-term observers (LTOs) arrived in Yaoundé, Cameroon on 5 September 2018 and will remain in the country until 19 October 2018 to comprehensively assess the electoral process in line with the African Union Long Term Election Observation Methodology.
Arusha, 28 August, 2018: The President and the Vice President of the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights (AfCHPR), Hon Justice Sylvain Oré from Côte d’Ivoire and Hon Justice Ben Kioko from Kenya respectively, have been re-elected for the second and final term of two years to lead the Bureau.
The closed-door elections were held yesterday at the start of the 50th Ordinary Session at the seat of the Court in Arusha, Tanzania.
Mrs Minata Samate Cessouma, Commissioner for Political Affairs, presenting some popularization items for the theme of the year, 2018 to Dr Fatoumata Nafo-Traore, Director, Africa Region, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Cressent Societies on Thursday, September 6, 2018.
The Hague, The Netherlands, 3 September 2018 The African Union (AU) takes part in the public hearings before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on the request for an advisory opinion regarding the Legal Consequences of the Separation of the Chagos Archipelago from Mauritius in 1965 (Request for Advisory Opinion).
