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Addis Ababa, 4 April 2016– African countries must find each other and work together in areas of mutual benefit instead of competing against each other, if development is to leapfrog on the continent.

Addis Ababa, 4 April 2016 - “Our future rests in our hands,” declared Ethiopia’s Prime Minister, Mr. Haile Mariam Desalegn on Monday in his keynote speech at the opening of the Conference of the African Ministers of Finance, Planning and Integration, holding today 4 April 2016 at the Conference Center of the Economic Commission for Africa in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia .

Addis Ababa, 3 April 2016– On the fringe of the African Development Week, the African Union Commission (AUC) and the Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) jointly organized, on 3 April 2016 in Addis Ababa, a high-level panel discussion on the theme “unleashing the potential of pharmaceuticals in the socio-economic transformation of Africa” under the chairmanship of Mrs. Fatima Haram Acyl, African Union Commissioner for Trade and Industry. The event took place at the Conference Center of the UNECA.

Addis Ababa, 4 April 2016– The African Union Commission (AUC) and the Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) on Sunday convened a conversation with some of Africa’s best thought leaders in the arts and media sectors to discuss their perspectives on the continent’s transformation agenda.

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 02 April, 2016 - “the APRM was established when Africans turned to themselves to mobilize their own resources in order to realise African change and development. The APRM is therefore a critical mechanism for Africa’s Governance landscape,” these are the words of former President of Mozambique H.E Joaquim Chissano during his response to the presentation of the APRM’s Turnaround Strategy at the 4th General Assembly of the Forum of Former African Heads of State and Government - Africa Forum.