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.
The AU offers exciting opportunities to get involved in determining continental policies and implementing development programmes that impact the lives of African citizens everywhere. Find out more by visiting the links on right.
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Ms Bekele-Thomas is the first woman to lead the African Union’s development agency. She was appointment and endorsed as the new Chief Executive Officer of AUDA-NEPAD by the African Union Heads of State and Government during the Thirty-Fifth Ordinary Session of the African Union summit, in February 2022. She succeeds Dr Ibrahim Assane Mayaki as CEO of AUDA-NEPAD.
The working relationship between the African Union Commission (AUC) and the republic of Mozambique continues to be strengthened. Mozambique is hosting SADC’s Humanitarian and Emergency Operations Centre (SHOC).
A team from the African Union Commission (AUC’s) Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Unit recently undertook a joint mission together with the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) to assess drought situations in three provinces within Southern Angola. This followed by an invitation from the government of Angola from 22-29 April 2022.
The African Union Commission, through the Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Unit, participated in the just ended Sahel Regional Workshop in Dakar, Senegal from 26-29 April 2022. The overall objective of the regional workshop was to build the capacity of national and regional stakeholders on harmonisation of disaster risk data and information management systems at the national and regional level to promote risk-informed and sustainable development in western Sahel and in the Lake Chad Basin.
Addis Ababa, 16 May 2022: The Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat, congratulates H.E. Hassan Sheikh Mohamud on his historic election as the President of the Federal Republic of Somalia, which was conducted by the Senate and House of the People on Sunday, 15 May 2022.
The Chairperson commends the outgoing President, H.E. Mohamed Abdullahi "Farmaajo" for demonstrating strong leadership and statesmanship through his gracious acceptance of the election outcome.
The Deputy Chairperson of the African Union Commission addresses the Meeting of the High Committee in charge of the agenda of the Decade of African Roots and Diaspora
Following an invitation from the Government of the Republic of Kenya to the African Union to observe the forthcoming General Elections scheduled for 9 August 2022,
On the sidelines of the International Society of Substance Use Professionals (ISSUP) conference “Uniting the Global Community to Face the Challenge of Addiction”, which kicked off on Thursday, 12 May 2022 in Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the African Union has launched the Global Dialogue on Drug Demand Reduction between Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean as testimony of collective efforts to resolve concerted action to common problems.
Addis Ababa, 12 May 2022: The Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat, has learned with great alarm of the terrorist attack that took place on 11 May, against a military post of the Togolese armed forces, in the locality of Kpékpakandi, in northern Togo, and which left 8 people dead and 13 injured.
The launch of the first pilot program series on the use of the State Parties Assessment Tool (SPAT) on the implementation and reporting to the AU Charter on Public Service kicks off today, 10 May 2022 in Dar Es Salaam, United Republic of Tanzania.
This capacity building aligns with the declaration of the Second Conference of State Parties to the Charter held on 29 April 2021 (Para 3) ‘inviting Tanzania, South Africa, Kenya, Namibia and Cameroun to pilot the operationalization of the SPAT’.
