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 Ababa, 6 May 2016: The Chairperson of the African Union Commission, H.E. Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma approved the deployment of an African Union (AU) expert’s election observers mission to the re-run election in the Union of the Comoros scheduled for 11 May 2016.
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia – 4 May 2016: The Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, is following with concern the political situation in the Union of The Comoros and calls for smooth and peaceful during the partial re-run of the elections in Anjouan Island scheduled for 11 May 2016.
Press Statement
From 4 to 5 May 2016, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the African Union (AU) and the United Nations (UN) undertook a joint mission to Banjul.
Your Excellency, Minister Amina Mohamed, Cabinet Secretary for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kenya and our Gracious Host
Foreign Minister of Libya, representing the Bureau of the Executive Council of the African Union
Excellencies Ministers, Deputy Ministers, Leaders of AU Organs
Honourable Representatives from the Nairobi City Government and the Government of Kenya
Deputy Chairperson Erastus Mwencha and Commissioners
Dr. Carlos Lopes, Executive Secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Africa
Nairobi, Kenya 5 May 2016 – “Karibuni sana…” it is with this warm greetings in Kiswahili that Amb. (DR.) Amina C. Mohamed, Cabinet Secretary for Foreign Affairs and International Trade of the Republic of Kenya, welcomed her peers, the Ministers of Foreign Affairs from the African Union (AU) Member States, during the reception cocktail organised on 5th May 2016, at the eve of the 4th Retreat of the Executive Council in Nairobi.
Lusaka, Zambia 4 May 2016- The second intra-regional forum on migration in Africa, being hosted in Lusaka by the Zambian government, has heard a first-hand account of the benefits of facilitating free movement of people, goods and services as well as some of the challenges being faced in efforts to promote trade and integration in Africa.
STATEMENT
BY AMB. (DR.) AMINA C.MOHAMED EGH, CBS, CAV
CABINET SECRETARY FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND INTERNATIONAL TRADE
REPUBLIC OF KENYA
AT THE RECEPTION COCKTAIL FOR THE 4THRETREAT OF THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL 5TH MAY 2016.
Members of the African Union Executive Council meet in Nairobi to brainstorm on the paradox of rich Africa, poor Africans and changing mindsets
A retreat of Ambassadors of the African Group on WTO issues, jointly organized by the Permanent Delegation of the African Union in Geneva and the Economic Commission United Nations for Africa (ECA) was held at Chavannes-de-Bogis, Switzerland from 25 to 26 April 2016.
