Statement of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission AUC_MoussaFaki on the the Celebration of African Union Day, 9 September 2022 : AU20
Statement of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission on the the Celebration of African Union Day, 9 September 2022
Refusing complacency despite the significant victories won over colonialism and the odious system of Apartheid in favour of the liberation of the Continent, our Heads of State and Government, under the impetus of unfailing determination, decided to chart a new path for an Africa open to the horizon of modernity and the collective well-being of the peoples. This was the operational action of the African Union in 2002.
Break in the displacement of the centre of gravity on strategic objectives linked to our determination to speed up the process of Regional Integration. This orientation is stated, through the design and execution of flagship projects, covering all areas of human activity: infrastructure, air transport, digitisation, industrialisation, energy, education and scientific research, university education, agriculture, health, trade, communication, culture, etc.
Break also in the reasoned choice of a new modus operandi centered on results-based management. In terms of results, the evaluation of the First Decade of the implementation of Agenda 2063 highlights significant achievements, confirmed, among other things, by the very advanced operationalisation of the African Continental Free Trade Area , the transformation of NEPAD into an African Development Agency, the effective functioning of the Pan African University, etc.
One of the main effects of this vigilance is in the decision taken by our Leaders in January 2017 to engage all the organs of our Union in a process of institutional reform, whose implementation, still ongoing, promises in the final analysis, to project a new image of our Continental Organisation, while giving it a revised and corrected content.