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.
Accra, 23rd November 2018 – The 2nd African Girls Summit on ending child marriage has kicked off today under the theme: “enough with the silence” in Accra, Ghana which is organized by the African Union Commission, in collaboration with the Government of the Republic of Ghana.
Excellency, Mr Charles Owiredu, Honourable Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, of the Republic of Ghana,
Excellency, Mr Bakary Kone, Deputy to the Executive Secretary of the African Capacity Building Foundation,
Excellencies, members of the African Diplomatic Corps, resident in Ghana,
Excellency, Dr. Eddy Maloka, President of the African Peer Review Mechanism,
Excellencies, Representatives of the Regional Economic Communities (RECs),
18 – 20 September 2018 – Accra, Ghana – The directorate of the Citizens and Diaspora organizations (CIDO) of the African Union Commission and the United Nations Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNOHCHR met in Accra, Ghana alongside a number of Member states, Civil society organizations and Diaspora organizations, to celebrate the Decade for People of African Descent.
Accra, Ghana 26 June 2018 - The Department of Trade and Industry of the African Union Commission is organizing from 26-28 June 2018 in Accra, Ghana the 3rd Expert Group Meeting for drafting of the African Union Model Law on Mineral Resources.
Addis Ababa, 14 June 2018: The Department of Political Affairs (DPA) of the African Union Commission (AUC) has begun a two-day African Union Workshop on Political Parties Engagement Programme in Accra, Ghana.
The African Union will tomorrow, 14th November 2017 launch the Gender and Development Initiative for Africa (GADIA). Deputy Chairperson of the African Union Commission H.E Kwesi Quartey will join the President of the Republic of Ghana H.E Nana Akufo-Addo, who is also the Chairperson of the African Union’s Committee on Gender and Development, in the launch of the Initiative under the theme “Africa women as leaders in business and politics”. The launch will take place in Accra, Ghana.
Accra, Ghana 16 November 2015 - “Industrial Policy and Economic Performance in Africa” was at the center of discussion of the Fourth Congress of African Economists that kicked off on 16 November 2015 in Accra, Ghana, bringing together economists from the five regions of Africa and the Diaspora, to exchange views on how to strengthen and encourage research on economic and policy issues related to the structural transformation and development of the African continent within the framework of the AU Agenda 20163.
Your Excellency Nana Akufo-Addo, President of the Republic of Ghana;
Honorable Alan Kyerematen, Minister of Trade and Industry of the Republic of
Ghana;
Nana Dr. Appigaei Dankawasso, President of the Ghana Chamber of Commerce
and Industry, and the Pan African Chamber of Commerce and Industry;
Dr. David Luke, Coordinator of the African Trade Policy Center of United Nations Economic Commission for Africa and the African Union Commission;
Mr. Tewolde Gebremariam, Chief Executive Officer of the Ethiopian Airlines Corporation;
