2nd Edition of the African Forum of Territorial Managers

“To promote decentralization and African local government as a distinct and autonomous sphere of government while building African unity and driving African development through the grassroots.”
The umbrella organization for African local governments, was founded in 2005 in the City of Tshwane, South Africa as a result of the unification of three continental groups of local governments, namely the African Union of Local Authorities (AULA); the Union des Villes Africaines (UVA); and the Africa Chapter of the Unao dos Ciudades y Capitaes Lusofono Africana, (UCCL AFRICA).
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On May 25th 1963 in Addis Abba, Ethiopia, 32 African states agreed to establish the Organization of African Unity (OAU). To commemorate this historic event May 25th is celebrated as Africa Day.
Throughout the 1990s African leaders debated the need to amend the OAU’s structures to reflect the challenges of a changing world.
September 9th 1999 the 4th Extraordinary Session of the OAU saw Heads of State and Government adopt the Sirte Declaration calling for the establishment of a new Africa Union. To commemorate this historic event September 9th is celebrated as Africa Union Day.
The Lomé Summit adopted the Constitutional Act of the Union.
The Lusaka Summit drew the roadmap for the implementation of the AU.
The July 2002 Durban Summit launched the AU and convened the 1st Assembly of the Heads of State of the African Union.
50th Anniversary
The year 2013 marks the 50th Anniversary celebration of the founding of the Organization of African Unity.
The Africa Union Heads of State and Government adopted Agenda 2063.
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