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. Mr. Paul Kagame, President of the Republic of Rwanda, was appointed to lead the AU institutional reforms process. He appointed a pan-African committee of experts to review and submit proposals for a system of governance for the AU that would ensure the organisation was better placed to address the challenges facing the continent with the aim of implementing programmes that have the highest impact on Africa’s growth and development so as to deliver on the vision of Agenda 2063.
The AU offers exciting opportunities to get involved in determining continental policies and implementing development programmes that impact the lives of African citizens everywhere. Find out more by visiting the links on right.
The AU Commission will commemorate the second Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Development (PCRD) Awareness Week. The theme of the week is ‘Towards Repositioning Post-conflict Reconstruction and Development in Africa.’ Its tagline is ‘Greater Awareness, Sustained Peacebuilding’.
The Conference of the States Parties (CoSP) to the African Medicines Agency (AMA) Treaty, held its first Extraordinary Session in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from 3 to 4 November 2022. The meeting deliberated and decided on the next steps in the operationalisation phase of the AMA, following the pronouncement of the Agency’s headquarters host country in the Republic of Rwanda by the 41st Ordinary Session of the Executive Council.
Outbreak Update: As of 31 October 2022, a total of 627,104,342 COVID-19 cases and 6,567,552 deaths (case fatality ratio [CFR]: 1.1%) have been reported globally by 232 countries and territories to the World Health Organization (WHO).
BACKGROUND
Young people are at the very heart of Africa’s development agenda. With over 75% of Africa’s 1.2 billion inhabitants under the age of 35, and 453 million Africans aged 15- 35, it goes without saying that the development outcomes of Africa’s young people have a significant and lasting effect on the continent’s trajectory. The challenges Africa faces in education, employment, health, and governance are most acutely felt by Africa’s youth.
MEDIA ADVISORY
Validation Workshop of the «Mapping Issues for Formulating a Strategic Plan for the African Centre for the Study and Research on Migration» Report
INVITATION TO THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE MEDIA
WHAT: Validation Workshop of the «Mapping Issues for Formulating a Strategic Plan for the African Centre for the Study and Research on Migration» Report.
WHEN: 20-21 September 2022, starting from 8:00 AM EAT
WHERE: Hybrid event. Radisson Blu Hotel Addis Ababa and Virtual through the below link:
The 7th ordinary session of the Pan African University Council took place on Friday 29 July 2022, at the African Union Commission Headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
National Launch of the Project “Catalytic Actions of the AU-ILO-IOM-ECA Joint Program on Labour Migration Governance for Development and Integration in Africa (JLMP-Action)” in the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
AUC Deputy Chairperson H.E. Dr. Monique Nsanzabaganwa addresses Staff Town Hall Meeting
Outbreak Update: As of 4 July 2022, a total of 546,114,042 COVID-19 cases and 6,335,599 deaths (case fatality ratio [CFR]: 1.2%) have been reported globally by 232 countries and territories to the World Health Organization (WHO).
Statement by Amb. Hope Tumukunde Gasatura, the Ambassador of Rwanda to the Democratic Republic of Ethiopia and Permanent Representative to the African Union
At the Headquarters of the African Union, during the Kwibuka28 symposium
16th June 2022
