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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‘As we implement Agenda 2063, we must admit that our continent faces challenges of promotion and protection of human and peoples' rights. We have to do our best to advance rights that address the root causes of underdevelopment, poverty, integrity, inequality, marginalization, and exclusion’, he said.
Addis Ababa, November, 04 2019: Over one third of the world’s forcibly displaced persons are in Africa, including 6.3 million refugees and asylum seekers and 14, 5 million IPDs, thus Africa has no option but to double its efforts to address these phenomena. Accordingly, the adoption of Global Compacts on Refugees and Migration respectively, underscores the recent global shift to put the refugees, asylum seekers, Internally Displaced persons (IDPs) and migration topics at centre stage in policy discourse in Africa and beyond.
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 21st October 2019: The Ethiopian Chapter of the African Women Leaders Network (AWLN) has been launched in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The launch was presided over by the President of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia and AWLN Leader, H.E. Sahle-Work Zewde; African Union Special Envoy for Women, Peace and Security, Mme Bineta Diop; the United Nations Deputy Secretary-General, Ms. Amina J. Mohammed; UN Women Executive Director, Dr. Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka among other Ethiopian women leaders across generations and high-level dignitaries from the AU and UN systems.
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1st November, 2019 – The African Union Special Envoy on Women, Peace and Security, Mme Bineta Diop, led the delegation of the African Union in the third joint African Union – United Nations Solidarity Mission to the Horn of Africa from Monday 21st to Saturday 26th October, 2019. The UN delegation was led by the United Nations Deputy Secretary-General, Ms. Amina J. Mohammed.
Mogadishu, Somalia, 01 November 2019 – The African Union (AU) and the United Nations (UN) have lauded the notable achievements in women’s participation in its peace, security and development efforts in Somalia.
Port Louis, 04 November 2019– African Union Commission (AUC) announces the arrival of an observation mission for parliamentary elections scheduled for 7th November 2019 in the Republic of Mauritius. The Chairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC), H.E. Mr. Moussa Faki Mahamat, has dispatched this short-term mission to observe and report on the electoral process.
H.E. Dr Amani Abou-Zeid, African Union Commissioner for Infrastructure and Energy, actively participated at this year’s WBG/IMF Annual Meetings held from 14 to 20 October 2019, where the development of the regional digital transformation strategy aiming at enabling inclusive digital transformation in Africa was largely discussed.
