Africa Urges Customized Climate Services for Building Climate Resilient Continent

By strengthening the entire climate services value chain, the Programme improves the accuracy and accessibility of timely weather and climate information for decision-making, adaptation, and risk mitigation at all levels

The 3rd OACPS and 1st African Union ClimSA Forum will gather more than three hundred delegates from African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries, as well as partners of the Intra-ACP Climate Services and Related Applications (ClimSA) programme. Delegates will develop solutions to challenges facing climate service providers and users in…

Video News Release: Message from the Secretary General of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Secretariat

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The Directorate of Information and Communication of the African Union Commission (AUC/DIC), would like to share with you the Message from the Secretary General of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Secretariat, on the Operationalisation of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA): AU Web Site @ https://au.int/en/videos/20200518/message-secretary-general-afcfta-secretariat-operationalisation-african-continental YouTube @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPDsjRPu7ks

Statement by Chairperson of the African Union Commission on the 26th Commemoration of the Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda (Kwibuka26)

Under the Theme: “Remember-Unite-Renew”

Fellow Africans  Youth, Ladies and Gentlemen  Today we commemorate the 26th Anniversary of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda (KWIBUKA26), under the theme: “Remember-Unite-Renew”.  This is the twelfth year since the African Union started the annual commemoration of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. However, this…

Coronavirus - Africa: Communique of the Bureau of the Assembly of the African Union (AU) Heads of State and Government Teleconference on COVID-19, Held on 26 March 2020

His Excellency President Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa, President of the Republic of South Arica, in his capacity as Chairperson of the African Union, convened a teleconference of the Bureau of the African Union Heads of State and Government, ahead of the G20 Leaders’ Summit video-teleconference on 26 March 2020. The Bureau…

Video News Release: COVID-19: Solidarity Message of the African Union Commission Chairperson to African Member States

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