Africa’s  Trillion Housing Deficit Threatens Agenda 2063

Africa’s $1 Trillion Housing Deficit Threatens Agenda 2063

Africa’s deepening housing crisis, estimated at more than 52 million units, is emerging as one of the continent’s most urgent barriers to achieving the African Union’s Agenda 2063 development blueprint, financial and development leaders warned Monday at the Intra-African Trade Fair (IATF2025) in Algiers. The continent’s housing shortfall, experts say, now carries an estimated price…

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Digital driving licences back on the agenda in South Africa

Digital driving licences back on the agenda in South Africa

Parliament has urged transport minister Barbara Creecy to kick off the policymaking process that would pave the way for government to issue digital driving licences. Speaking to TechCentral in an interview on Tuesday, Democratic Alliance MP Rikus Badenhorst, chairman of parliament’s select committee on infrastructure, said a digital driving licence card could help the transport…

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Africa’s  Trillion Housing Deficit Threatens Agenda 2063

Africa: AU, Ethiopian Enhance Partnership to Advance Agenda 2063

ADDIS ABABA -The African Union and Ethiopian Airlines (Ethiopian) have reaffirmed their commitment to strengthening their partnership in order to enhance Africa’s connectivity and integration while advancing the Union’s broader vision under Agenda 2063. The Chairperson of the African Union Commission Mahmoud Ali Youssouf and the Chief Executive Officer of Ethiopian Airlines Group Mesfin Tasew…

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Africa’s  Trillion Housing Deficit Threatens Agenda 2063

Africa: Agenda 2063 in Action – AFCFTA Pushes Africa Toward Self-Reliant Industrialization

The continental flagship project under the African Union’s Agenda 2063, the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), is envisioned to transform Africa into a global economic powerhouse through integration. With 54 signatories and 47 ratifications, the AfCFTA is now the world’s largest free trade agreement, promising to connect a market of 1.4 billion people. With…

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Africa’s  Trillion Housing Deficit Threatens Agenda 2063

Africa: AU and Member States Chart Path for Women, Peace, and Security Agenda and Highlight National Progress in Cotonou Meeting

The Political Affairs, Peace and Security Department (PAPS) of the African Union Commission, through its Gender Peace and Security Programme (GPSP) and FemWise-Africa Secretariat, in partnership with Nett4Peace and GIZ, successfully convened Member States in Benin for the Annual Coordination Meeting on the Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) Agenda, marking 25 years since UN Security…

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Africa’s  Trillion Housing Deficit Threatens Agenda 2063

Africa: AUC Deputy Chairperson Reaffirmed the AU’s Commitment to Ocean Health As a Cornerstone of Agenda 2063 & SDGs

At the High Level Event on “A Sustainable Ocean Economy,” co-organised by APRM & the OECD at the AU Permanent Observer Mission offices in New York this afternoon, AUC Deputy Chairperson H.E Amb. Selma Malika Haddadi reaffirmed the AU’s commitment to ocean health as a cornerstone of Agenda 2063 & SDGs. She underscored the urgent…

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