The European Union (EU) and the African Union (AU), working through the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), continue to scale up their health partnership with the launch of three new initiatives worth over €100 million under the Global Gateway strategy. These initiatives aim to strengthen national public health institutes, enhance health security, and expand digital...

The European Union (EU) and the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Secretariat signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on 20 April 2026, strengthening their partnership to accelerate the African Continental Free Trade Area which is the largest free trade area in the world. The EU-AfCFTA partnership ambitions to boost regional and continental economic integration on the African...

The European Union (EU) has been granted the Most Valued Partner Award by the African Union (AU) Department of Political Affairs, Peace and Security (PAPS) recognising the EU’s longstanding and comprehensive support to the AU’s mandate to promote governance, security, and stability across the continent. This award has been created exclusively and for the first time by AU PAPS Department to...

The European Union Delegation to the African Union held a ceremony with the whole team to honour the remarkable career of two long-standing staff, Sosena Araya and Klara Kanska.