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, 10 September 2019 - The Government of Rwanda, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and the African Union have today signed a Memorandum of Understanding to set up a transit mechanism for evacuating refugees and asylum seekers out of Libya.
09 September 2019, Addis Abeba: The Chairperson of the African Union Commission Moussa Faki Mahamat strongly condemns two separate attacks that occurred in northern Burkina Faso, killing more than 29 people.
The Chairperson expresses his deepest condolences to the families of the victims and the government of Burkina Faso, and wishes a speedy recovery to the injured.
06 September 2019, Addis Abeba: It is with immense sadness that the Chairperson of the African Union Commission Moussa Faki Mahamat learnt of the passing of Zimbabwe's former president Robert Mugabe.
On behalf of the entire African Union family, the Chairperson wishes to express his sincere condolences to the late former president Mugabe's family and the Zimbabwean people.
The African Union is united in grief as we mourn an iconic liberation fighter and emblematic Pan-Africanist in the struggle for liberation and continental integration.
H.E. Minata Samate Cessouma, Commissioner for Political Affairs with the outgoing US Representative to the African Union, Ambassador Mary beth Leonard, during a farewell visit to the Commissioner on Friday, September 6, 2019.
