The 41st Ordinary Session of the African Union Executive Council has approved the organisation’s 2023 spending budget to be $654.8 million.
The budget was approved during the council’s meeting in Lusaka, Zambia on Monday and according to information reaching APA, 67 percent of it is to be covered by donor partners.
The council also approved Ethiopia’s nomination, along with three other African countries, to serve as a member of the International Civil Aviation Organization Council on behalf of Africa.
The Executive Council has also selected Rwanda to host the Headquarters of the African Medicines Agency, which is committed to enhancing capacity of state parties to regulate medical products, improve Africa’s access to quality safe, and efficacious medical products, and support the creation of an enabling environment for pharmaceutical manufacturing on the continent.
Eight member countries including Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Rwanda, Tanzania, Tunisia, Uganda, and Zimbabwe submitted offers to host the AMA that will also work on the creation of an enabling environment for pharmaceutical manufacturing on the continent.
The council also approved the revised statute document of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), which empowers the agency and increases its ability to function independently.
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