Site-Wide Activity

USAID ADMINISTRATOR MARK GREEN’S REMARKS AT AN UNLOCKING THE POTENTIAL OF DEVELOPMENT-IMPACT BONDS EVENT AT THE WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM

Steigenberger Grandhotel Belvedere Davos, […]

The coalition, specifically working with USAID’s Power Africa initiative, aims to transform refugee settlements into digitally-connect communities.  The project will utilise Mastercard’s existing resea […]

Democratic Senator Dick Durbin, and co-author of an Immigration Plan with Republican Senator Graham, claimed Trump used an obscenity to describe African nations and made disparaging remarks about Haitian […]

 Friends of the African Union announces a series of events for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Monday, January 15, 2018
This is the FAU’s 6th annual celebration of the holiday in Cincinnati, dedicated to keeping […]

Africa
Africa remains a continent of promise and enduring challenges. Africa contains many of the world’s fastest growing economies, which represent potential new markets for U.S. goods and serv […]

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Sixty-nine years ago today, in the aftermath of World War II, the United Nations (UN) General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights so that governments who are signatures to it will recognize […]

The Secretary of Commerce convened the President’s Advisory Council on Doing Business in Africa Nov 29th 2017.

The varied, diverse and accomplished appointees of the 2016-2018 President’s Advisory Council on D […]

In proclaiming this Decade, the international community is recognizing that people of African descent represent a distinct group whose human rights must be promoted and protected. Around 200 million people […]

The objective of this year’s Africa Industrialization Day is to raise awareness of the importance of African industrial development in implementing a successful Continental Free Trade Area, and therefore f […]

Human Rights Council Thirty-third session Agenda item 9

Racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related forms of intolerance, follow-up to and implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Act […]

On Tuesday, October 31, the Brookings Africa Growth Initiative hosted former President of Malawi H.E. Joyce Banda and World Bank Chief Economist for Africa Albert Zeufack for a discussion on a new book by […]

This high-level event, which serves as the formal opening of Africa Week 2017, will focus on the overall theme of the Week. In considering as its basis African nations’ own vision of “an integrated, pro […]

Princess Sophie Charlotte was born on this date in 1744. She was the first Black Queen of England.
Charlotte was the eighth child of the Prince of Mirow, Germany, Charles Louis Frederick, and his wife, Elisabeth […]

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and in order to advance opportunities in higher education, it is hereby ordered as follows:

Section […]

We, the representatives of the global Pan African family, who supports the African Union and the proposal framework of the FAU Response to the 2015 United Nations Universal Periodic Review of the USA, will gather […]

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is a milestone document in the history of human rights. Drafted by representatives with different legal and cultural […]

GO HERE FOR WHITE HOUSE PETITION – $5T dollar solution which addresses the damage incurred by past and current federal gov racism against African Americans

Proposed use of proceeds from our unsolicited pr […]

Created by Hershel Daniels Junior Chairman Friends of the African Union on October 10th, Columbus Day Revised in 2016
Press here to go the White House petition site
Friends of the African Union statement with CA […]