Tag: African Union

Starting on Monday: 2nd SADC Industrialisation Week: Partnering with the private sector in developing industry and regional value chains. Southern Africa Trust briefing 37th Ordin...

AU members should honour financial contributions: Namibia’s PM (New Era) Prime Minister Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila has called on all member states of the AU to honour their asse...

Prime Minister Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila has called on all member states of the African Union (AU) to honor their assessed contributions on time and in full in accordance with the...

In a tumultuous year for the global trading landscape, negotiations for a huge Africa-wide free trade area are progressing rapidly. Across the developed world, longstanding a...

Diarise: Southern Africa Civil Society Forum (13-17 August, Johannesburg); China-Africa Investment Forum (27-28 November, Marrakesh) UNCTAD SG Mukhisa Kituyi confirmed for a secon...

Four out of 10 international tourists in Africa come from the continent itself, according to the new UNCTAD Economic Development in Africa Report 2017: Tourism for Transformative a...

The NEPAD Agency, in collaboration with the African Union Commission (AUC), International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), the Regional Strategic Analysis Knowledge Support ...

The 29th Ordinary Session of the Summit of the African Union has come to a close after 9 days, during which various statutory organs of the Union met to get status updates and make...

President Kagame: Report on the implementation of the institutional reform of the African Union The Implementation Matrix already handed [today] to you leaders in this room is off...

Address at the 29th Summit of the African Union, Addis Ababa I would like to begin by expressing my appreciation to their Excellencies, President Conde and President Deby, for the...

The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) is developing a toolkit that will help African countries develop an integrated approach in implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Dev...

Starting today: In Kigali, Afreximbank’s Annual General Meeting on the theme Promoting African trade and economic transformation. In Cotonou: The Africa Carbon Forum. AU Summit ...

The 29th African Union Summit opened on Tuesday, 27 June 2017, at the African Union (AU) Headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia under the theme of “Harnessing the Demographic Divi...

Featured infographic, shared via @LopesInsights: AU reform proposals in one graph (Institute for Peace and Security Studies) Starting today, in Addis: The Permanent Represent...

Since even before the first waves of independence, the African continent was already striving toward a peaceful, developed and politically integrated continent founded on the commo...

The East African Community is getting closer to a deal on tariff offers with Egypt and the South African Customs Union (SACU) that would allow the bloc to ratify the Tripartite Fre...

The African Union Commission in collaboration with the Government of Niger organized the third Meeting of African Union Ministers of Trade from 15-16 June 2017 in Niamey. The objec...

Representatives of African governments met in Addis Ababa recently and endorsed the ECA 2018-2019 programme of work. This follows the adjournment in March 2017 of the Bureau of th...

A strategic planning and capacity development retreat on the role of African Regional Economic Communities (RECs)s in the Implementation of the First Ten Year Action Plan of the Af...

Featured tweet, @AfricaSweMFA: 26 countries represented at the Nordic-African FM meeting in Nigeria [this weekend]. Great discussions on peace and security, trade and gender equali...