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 High Level Panel on Digital Cooperation has launched the Africa Dialogue Series on digital cooperation to discuss and identify areas in which cooperation across borders, industries and sectors, can mobilize efforts for the development of effective digital policies and for the future of Africa’s digital transformation.
Addis Abeba, 28 March 2019: The Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat is pleased to announce the appointments of Ambassador Matias Bertino Matondo, an Angolan national, as the new Special Representative and Head of Office for the African Union Office in the Central African Republic, to replace Mr Bedializoun Nebié Moussa, who has been called to other functions; and Ambassador Mohamed Belaich, a Moroccan national, as the new Special Representative in Sudan. This post was vacant.
Amb. Kwesi Quartey reiterated the African Union's commitment to work closely with Caribbean and Pacific countries to address issues of mutual concern, and called on the ACP Group to take advantage of new strategic geopolitical opportunities to advance shared interests in the ongoing post-Cotonou negotiations.
The African Union Commission, and Africa 24 GROUP have signed an MoU that will see the two institutions partner to develop and disseminate content aimed at promoting Africa’s image and its development narrative.
March 25, 2019 – Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: The African Union Commission’s Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture, H.E Amb. Josefa Sacko has been named one of the 100 Most Influential People in Climate Policy 2019 by Apolitical, a peer-to-peer learning platform for governments for her efforts towards influencing climate policy on the continent.
Amb. Sacko was named among the top 20 on the listing announced in London.
Marrakesh, Morocco 23rd March 2019: The twentieth Session of the Regional Coordination Mechanism for Africa (RM-Africa), opened today 23 March 2019, in Marrakech, Morocco, under the theme “United Nations system support for the African Union in commemorating 2019 as the Year of Refugees, Returnees and Internally Displaced Persons: towards durable solutions to forced displacement in Africa”.
Lomé, Togo, 20 March 2019: The President of the Togolese Republic His Excellency Mr. Faure ESSOZIMNA GNASSINGBE has met today with the AU Commissioner for Infrastructure and Energy, H. E. Dr. Amani ABOU-ZEID and the Secretary General of the African Civil Aviation Commission (AFCAC), Mr. Tefera MEKONNEN TEFERA to discuss on the actions to fast-track the operationalisation of the Single African Air Transport Market (SAATM).
Addis Ababa, 20 March 2019: The Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat, yesterday received the Permanent Representative of the Republic of Malawi to the African Union, Ambassador Mhimango Edward Chirwa.
