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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Africa under the auspices of the African Union Commission (AUC) on Monday, June 7, joined the world to celebrate the 3rd World Food Safety Day with a virtual seminar on issues relating to food safety in the continent
Over 50 per cent of African children lack legal identity; waive birth registration fees, extend deadlines, and digitize processes
The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (the Commission), in accordance with its mandate of promotion and protection of human rights in Africa under Article 45 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights (the African Charter),
The African Union (AU) has implored Member States to take decisive action to scale up efforts to address HIV among people who use drugs and in Prisons where prevalence remains higher than in the general population due to several factors such as stigma, discrimination and lack of access to commodities and services resulting in needle sharing.
The Republic of Sierra Leone becomes the eighth (8th) Member State to deposit the instrument of ratification of the African Medicines Agency (AMA). The Republic of Sierra Leone ratified the Treaty for the establishment of AMA on 28 May 2021 in Free Town, Sierra Leone and deposited the instrument of accession, to the Commission of the African Union (AU) on 14 June 2021 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The Office of the Legal Counsel of the African Union Commission received the instrument from Sierra Leone.
June 2021, Addis Ababa: The Chairperson of the African Union Commission Moussa Faki Mahamat, accompanied by Ambassador Adeoye Bankole, Commissioner for Political Affairs, Peace & Security, and other senior AU officials, concluded a two-day working visit to Khartoum today.
During his visit, the Chairperson held extensive consultations with the Chairman and Vice Chairman of the Sovereign Concil, the Prime Minister of the Transition,the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Minister of Irrigation and Water Resources and the Governor of Darfur.
The Republic of Burundi becomes the twentieth (20th) African Union (AU) Member State to sign the Treaty for the establishment of the African Medicines Agency (AMA) on 11 June 2021, at the AU Commission in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
The African Union officially launched the African Single Electricity Market (AfSEM), the world’s largest continent-wide energy trading program meant to interconnect all 55 African Union Member States through efficient, affordable, and sustainable electricity market.
The President of the Republic of Ghana, H.E Nana Addo Akufo-Addo has lauded the role and efforts of the African National Assemblies in shaping the public discourse at the national level of member states.
