Tag: africa

The 2015 Strategic Defence and Security Review announced a £1.3bn Prosperity Fund over the next 5 years to promote the economic reform and development needed for growth in partner countries. Our global priorities will include improving the business climate, competitiveness and operation of markets, energy and financial sector reform, and increasing the ability of partner countries to […]

H.E. Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, Chairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC), H.E. Mr. Carlos Lopes, Executive Secretary of Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and H.E Mr. Georges Wembi Lwambo , Minister of Planning of the Democratic Republic of Congo, had a press conference immediately after the closing of the joint AU-UNECA Ministerial Conference on […]

INVITATION TO THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE MEDIA WHAT:          Press Conference in relation to the 8th College-to-College meeting between the African Union Commission and the European Commission, 7 April 2016 Addis-Ababa WHO              Dr Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, Chairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC), and  the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and […]

UK Minister of State for International Development, Rt Hon Desmond Swayne MP, will visit Ghana this week to further bilateral relations focusing on good governance and Ghana’s commitments ahead of the UK summit on anti-corruption and Ghana-UK collaboration. During his visit the Minister will announce UK’s new £4 million programme aimed at supporting both Ghana’s […]

The Chairperson of the African Union Commission H.E. Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, has authorized the deployment of the Short Term Electoral Observation Missions (AUEOM) for the Presidential Elections scheduled for 8 April 2016 in the Republic of Djibouti and on 10 April 2016 in the Republic of Chad. The missions will be undertaken from 06 to […]

An International Monetary Fund (IMF) team, led by Laure Redifer, visited Kigali from March 22–April 5, 2016 to carry out discussions with the Rwandan authorities on the fifth review of their economic and financial program supported by the IMF’s Policy Support Instrument (PSI)[1], and to reach understandings on economic policies that could be supported under […]

The Department of Social Affairs held a joint high-level roundtable to discuss governance issues in the multi-stakeholder responses to the Ebola virus disease (EVD) in West Africa in partnership with IPSS, UNDP, Oxfam and Africa Peace Network at the African Union Commission (AUC) Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The meeting brought together key stakeholders at the highest national, […]

Sir Michael Barber, a leading expert in public service delivery and education reform, yesterday met Minister for Education El-Hilali El-Sherbini to discuss efforts to improve Egypt’s education system. Sir Michael welcomed the efforts of Minister El-Sherbini and the Egyptian government to improve the Egyptian education system. He told Minister El-Sherbini that delivering wide-ranging education reform […]

The Vice Prime Minister of the Republic of Namibia, H.E. Mr. Nickey Iyambo, has paid a courtesy call on the African Union Commission Chairperson, Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, on Monday, 4 April 2016, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The Namibian Vice Prime Minister said that he had been following very closely the steps being taken by […]

The African Union Commission Chairperson, Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, and the Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo, H.E. Augustine Mataa Ponyo, met on Monday, 4 April 2016, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. They met on the margins of the 9th Joint Annual Meetings of the African Union Specialised Technical Committee on Finance, Monetary Affairs, […]