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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The African Union Commission today received medical supplies from the Republic of Korea that will boost the continental capacity to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. The consignment included 2 million masks were given by the Republic of Korea to the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) to be distributed to the AU Member States.
His Excellency President Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa, President of the Republic of South Africa, in his capacity as the Chairperson of the African Union (AU), convened an Extraordinary Meeting of the African Union (AU) Bureau of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government, on 21 July 2020, to review progress pertaining to the Trilateral Negotiations on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). This was a follow-up to the 1st Extraordinary Meeting of the AU Bureau on the GERD held on 26 June 2020.
There are an estimated 19 million African Diaspora globally. This is more than the populations of Libya and Liberia combined. The African Union defines its diaspora as people of African Origin who live outside the continent, and who, irrespective of their current nationality or citizenship are willing to contribute to the development of the continent and the African Union. This definition encompasses all African migration; historic, current, forced, voluntary, economic or humanitarian.
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Addis Abeba, le 21 juillet 2020. Le Président de la Commission de l’Union africaine Son Excellence Moussa Faki Mahamat suit avec attention l’évolution de la situation sociopolitique au Mali et se félicite de l’envoi d’une Mission de Médiation de la CEDEAO en vue de la résolution de la crise.
The Republic of Sudan has today launched The Cost of Hunger in Africa (COHA)-Sudan report. The report was launched through the National Council for Child Welfare, which is the implementing body and coordinating partner for the COHA in Sudan.
As part of its mandated and to ensure the continuity of service, the Office of the Legal Counsel has been organizing signing ceremonies and deposit of instruments of ratification from African Union Member States. However, OLC ensures that security measures to fight against the Covid19 are strictly followed.
In that regards, OLC has received the instruments of ratification of the Treaty for the establishment of the African Medicines Agency (AMA Treaty) from Burkina Faso and the Republic of Mali.
The Republic of Burkina Faso becomes the third AU member state to ratify the Treaty for the establishment of the African Medicines Agency (AMA) on 14th April 2020, in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso and deposited the instrument of accessio
