[Zimbabwe]
African Union: “The Chairperson is concerned about reports of disproportionate use of force by security forces in enforcing COVID-19 emergency measures. He implores the authorities to exercise restraint in their response to peaceful protests.”
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[Republic of Chad\African Medicine Agency]
The African Medicine Agency will provide leadership, to ensure that there are harmonized and strengthened regulatory systems, which govern the regulation of medicines and medical products on the African continent.
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[Africa News\African Industrialization Week]
The AIW 2019, which builds upon the positive outcomes of the inaugural 2018 African Industrialization Week, and comes on the heels of the lauch of the Operational Phase of the AfCFTA on 7 July 2019 at the Extra-Ordinary Summit of the Africa Union Heads of State and Government (HoS/G) in Niamey, Niger could not have come at a better time. With the AfCFTA ushereing in a market space of at least US $3.4 trillion, and a consumer base of 1.27 billion, there is no doubt that moving the continent’s industrial production frontier, becomes critical, as enterprises tap into large scale opportunities on the back of free trade.
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[Africa News\Mauritius Elections]
African Union Commission (AUC), has decided to deploy forty (40) Short-Term Observers (STOs) in the Republic of Mauritius from 31st October to 12 November 2019 for the 7th November 2019 Parliamentary Elections.
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[Africa News\Education]
For the 2019 inaugural edition of the African Union Continental Teacher Awards, prizes of $10 000 each were awarded to top African teachers at the secondary school level.
The following are the winners for 2019 edition: (1) Ms. Augusta Lartey-Young (Ghana); (2) Sister Gladyce Kachope (Uganda); and (3) Mr. Eric Ademba (Kenya).
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[Africa News\Botswana Elections]
The short-term observation (STO) Mission will be led by Her Excellency H.E. Mrs Fatoumata Tambanjang, former Vice-President of the Republic of Gambia. The AUEOM delegation includes ambassadors from the Permanent Representatives’ Committee (PRC) of the AU, parliamentarians from the Pan-African Parliament (PAP), election administrators, civil society, media and electoral experts.
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[Africa News\Mozambique Elections]
The Chairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC), H.E. Moussa Faki Mahamat, has approved the deployment of forty (40) short-term observers and 4 electoral experts from 9 October 2019 until the conclusion of the election process in Mozambique, following an invitation from the Government of Mozambique.
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[African News]
“The African Union Commission through the Department of Economic Affairs, is convening the 11th African Private Sector Forum set to be hosted in Antananarivo, Madagascar, on the 6-8 November 2019. The forum will be held under the theme of ‘Transforming African economies through private sector mobilization and capitalization of experiences from other regions of the world”.
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[Africa News]
H.E. Moussa Faki Mahamat, Chairperson of the African Union Commission: “The games are also the field a platform for the strengthening of the cohesion and unity of our countries. By competing each other in the various duels and other sporting events, our young people broaden their horizons and size up the depth and relevance of this popular wisdom that “life is a struggle”. A struggle that educates people to avoid waiting, the search for easy solutions, a struggle to build oneself in a dignity, in work well done and above all, an ethical struggle to build a society guided by the spirit and letter of this “Africa that we want.”
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