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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According to Honorable Aya Benjamin Warille, South Sudan’s Minister of Gender, Child and Social Welfare lauded the advocacy visit stating “The Maputo Protocol on Women’s Rights is timely and this mission is extremely relevant to fast-track the process. Ratifying it will present a lot of opportunities for South Sudan”.
The Kingdom of Morocco has become the fourteenth (14th) African Union (AU) member state to deposit instruments of ratification of the Protocol to the constitutive act of the AU relating to the Pan-African Parliament (PAP) also known as the Malabo Protocol.
The African Union Commission, Political Affairs, Peace and Security Department (PAPS) through the AGA-APSA Secretariat, is holding a National Training of Trainers (TOT) program on youth participation in Political and Electoral processes in Zimbabwe from 6th-10th June 2022 in Harare, Zimbabwe.
The African Union and the Republic of Zambia have signed a host agreement on the hosting of the 4th Mid-Year Coordination Meeting at the level of Heads of State and Government, to be held on 17th July in Lusaka, Zambia. The signing ceremony took place in the context of the second evaluation mission to Zambia by the African Union Commission, which is mandated to support member states in the organization of the Union’s summits.
The training composed of senior officials and Civil Society Organizations representing member states and RECs including: Cameroon, Central African Republic, Ethiopia,
The Chairperson specifically acknowledges the commitment of the parties involved in the Ethiopian conflict, to a peaceful resolution of the conflict through significant confidence-building measures undertaken including the lifting of the national state of emergency.
The 2nd Extraordinary Session of the African Union Specialized Technical Committee on Transport, Transcontinental and Interregional Infrastructure, and Energy (STC-TTIIE)
On the Day of the African Child, the co-conveners of the Africa Platform on Children Affected by Armed Conflicts (AP-CAAC)
The Chairperson reaffirms the AU’s firm support to the new Prime Minister under the Government led by H.E. President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud in fulfilling the pressing needs of Somalia and its people for peace, stability and development.
