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      Opening Statement by Amb. Amr Aljowaily, Director, AUC Citizens and Diaspora Directorate (CIDO) before the Joint Bureaus Meeting and Consultations of AUCER and AULER
      AUC CIDO Director before the Joint Bureaus Meeting of AUCER and AULER
      9 February 2026

      Opening Statement by Amb.

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      Opening Speech on behalf of the African Union Commission delivered by Amb. Amr Aljowaily, Director, Citizens and Diaspora Directorate (CIDO), African Union Commission at 9th Pan-African Congress – Lomé, Togo
      Opening Speech CIDO Director at 9th Pan-African Congress – Lomé, Togo
      8 December 2025

      Theme: “Renewal of Pan-Africanism and Africa’s Role in the Reform of Multilateral Institutions: Mobilizing Resources and Reinventing Itself to Act”

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      Discours de S.E. M. Faure Essozimna Gnassingbe, Président du Conseil de la République Togolaise, à l’occasion du 9ème Congrès Panafricain
      Discours du Président du Conseil du Togo au 9ème Congrès Panafricain
      8 December 2025
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      Statement by Amb. Amr Aljowaily, AUC Director CIDO on the occasion of the “Advancing the AU Theme of the Year through a Child-Rights Lens”, inline with the 35th Anniversary of the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACRWC).
      Director CIDO at “Advancing AU Theme of Year through a Child-Rights Lens"
      28 November 2025

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      Africa Day 2025 Speech by Dr Rita Bissoonauth, Director, UNESCO Representative to AU, ECA and Ethiopia
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      24 May 2025

      Your Excellency, João Goncalves Lourenço, President of the Republic of Angola and Chairperson of the African Union,

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      Africa Day 2025 Statement by H.E. Amb. Hadera Abera, State Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ethiopia on the occasion of the Africa Day Commemoration
      AfricaDay: Statement by State Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ethiopia
      24 May 2025

      Your Excellency João Gonçalves Lourenço, President of the Republic of Angola, and Chair of the African Union,
      Your Excellency John Dramani Mahama, President of the Republic of Ghana,

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        Opening Speech on behalf of the African Union Commission delivered by Amb. Amr Aljowaily, Director, Citizens and Diaspora Directorate (CIDO), African Union Commission at 9th Pan-African Congress – Lomé, Togo
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        L’étude cartographique sur le rôle et les aspects de l’humanitarisme de la diaspora africaine pendant la pandémie COVID-19 a cherché à dé

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        Mapping Study on the Role and Faces of African Diaspora Humanitarianism during COVID-19
        2021-03-20

        The Mapping Study on the Role and Faces of African Diaspora Humanitarianism during COVID-19 sought to determine how different African dia

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