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Ahead of the United Nations Summit of the Future (SOTF), which seeks to patch up the increasingly eroding trust in multilateral cooperation’s capacity to effectively tackle current and future global challenges, the 69th UN Civil Society Conference (2024 UNCSC) in Support of the SOTF took place on May 9-10 in…

In a bid to foster understanding of the content of the Pact for the Future and equip civil society actors with the requisite knowledge and skills to actively engage in the intergovernmental process leading up to and following the SOTF, C4UN hosted a side workshop at the 2024 UN Civil…

The African Minerals Development Centre (AMDC) recently hosted the East and Southern Africa Regional Consultative Workshop for a Continental Artisanal and Smale-Scale Mining (ASM) Strategy in collaboration with United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the ACP-EU Minerals Development Programme , in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Panelists speaking at the maiden…

The 8th Pan African Forum on Migration (PAFoM-8) proffered crucial recommendations, which, if implemented, will help Africa harness the benefits of the nexus between trade and the free movement of people, especially labor migration.      Free movement of people, capital, goods and services is at the heart of Africa’s…

Between August 21st and 23rd, the secretariat of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), in collaboration with the Government of Zambia, hosted the inaugural AfCFTA Youth Symposium (AfCFTAYS2023) in Lusaka, Zambia.     Africa’s youth population is projected to reach 1.3 billion by 2100, almost half the world’s youth…

As part of preparations for the 2024 UN Summit of the Future (SOTF), the African Union Economic Social and Cultural Council (AU-ECOSOCC) and Coalition for the UN We Need (C4UN), hosted a virtual African townhall on UN reforms to consolidate African voices in the ongoing negotiations leading to the SOTF.…

The 36th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the African Union urged member states to double the spirit of pan-Africanism and intra-African solidarity by accelerating the operationalization of the Africa Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA).     “This is indeed a momentous and historic…

To mobilize the collective support of governments, the private sector, financing institutions, and development partners for the Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa’s 2nd Priority Action Plan (PIDA PAP2) projects, Republic of Senegal last week hosted in its new city of Diamniadio the 2nd Dakar Financing Summit for Africa’s Infrastructure…

The Economic, Social and Cultural Council of the African Union (AU-ECOSOCC), an advisory organ established to give African Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) a voice within AU’s decision-making processes, recently constituted and inaugurated its 4th Permanent General Assembly (PGA) for a four-year tenure.     The 4th Permanent General Assembly (PGA)…

The African Union Summit on Industrialization, Economic Diversification cum Extraordinary Session on the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) held November 25 in Niamey, Niger.     The 1980s First Industrial Decade for Africa (IDDA1) marked the beginning of a conscious policy effort to make Africa’s industrialization a priority. Subsequently,…