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African Union
African Union
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African Union Constitutive Act is adopted
📅 11 Juli 2000African leaders adopted the AU’s founding act, setting out goals of unity, integration, peace and sustainable development.
African Union is launched in Durban
📅 9 Juli 2002The AU succeeded the OAU, opening a new institutional phase of African integration and collective diplomacy.
Africa observes its first Traditional Medicine Day
📅 31 Augustus 2003The first African Traditional Medicine Day was observed on this date to draw attention to traditional practitioners in health systems.
WHO calls for recognition of African traditional care
📅 31 Augustus 2003On the first observance, the WHO regional office urged governments to formally recognize traditional medicine.
Traditional practitioners gain a regional advocacy day
📅 31 Augustus 2003The newly instituted annual day offered a forum for discussion of African medical knowledge and health access.
African health systems debate traditional medicine
📅 31 Augustus 2003The 2003 observance encouraged policy discussions on how traditional and conventional care could relate.
BRICS endorses African development and trade integration
📅 23 Juni 2022Leaders supported the African Union’s Agenda 2063 and Africa’s work toward the African Continental Free Trade Area.
BRICS endorses African industrialization and AfCFTA
📅 23 Augustus 2023The declaration connected African trade integration with infrastructure, local value addition and moving beyond dependence on commodity exports.
The Accra Reparations Conference concludes with a common proclamation
📅 17 November 2023The Accra conference concluded with a proclamation connecting African and diaspora demands for reparatory justice. Participants sought coordinated action on the consequences of enslavement and...
The African Union opens its year centred on reparatory justice
📅 15 Februari 2025The African Union summit opened with justice for Africans and people of African descent through reparations as its theme for 2025. The programme connected continental institutions with diaspora...
The ninth Pan-African Congress opens in Lomé
📅 8 December 2025The ninth Pan-African Congress opened in Lomé, bringing continental and diaspora participants together around sovereignty, identity and institutional reform. The gathering renewed an international...