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, 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’.
AFREC has ramped up its capacity building initiatives by continuing to increase the African pool of trainers in energy statistic, through the training of the Trainers (ToT) programme.
The African Union has reiterated its commitment to ensure journalists enjoy their rights and freedoms and are safeguarded from harassment and abuse in their line of duty.
The Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) has ratified the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa, becoming the 43rd African State to ratify the Protocol
We, the participants at the Africa Media Convention - World Press Freedom Day, held in Arusha Tanzania, 1-3 May 2022 acknowledge the state of the media in Africa in reference to this year’s theme and make recommendations to the media stakeholders as follows:
Appreciate the focus of WPFD2022 theme on the complex and restrictive impact of digital siege on journalists and human rights defenders;
The Common African Agro-Parks (CAAPs)-Technical Coordination Team (CAAPs-TCT) convened its 2022 Planning Workshop in Nairobi, Kenya, from 25th- 29th April 2022.
The African Union (AU) and Nutrition International have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU), toward a shared vision to end hunger, poverty and malnutrition in Africa.
The MoU was signed at AU Headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia by H.E. Minata Samate Cessouma the Commissioner for Health, Humanitarian Affairs and Social Development at the African Union Commission and Mr. Joel C. Spicer the Nutrition International’s President and CEO.
Launch of the study on “Migration and Health: addressing Current Health Challenges of Migrants and Refugees in Africa – from Policy to Practice”
Addis Ababa, 3 May 2022. The Chairperson of the Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat, has condemned in the strongest terms the terrorist attack perpetrated by Al Shabaab militants against an African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS) base in Middle Shabele region, south west of Mogadishu, on 3 May 2022
