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      Agriculture, Rural Development, Blue Economy and Sustainable Environment (ARBE)

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      H.E. Moses Vilakati
      Commissioner for ARBE
      H.E. Moses Vilakati
      Mr. Moses Vilakati (Eswatini) was elected to head the Agriculture, Rural Development, Blue Economy and Sustainable Environment (ARBE) department. He served as a minister in Eswatini in both the Ministry of Tourism and Environmental Affairs in 2018 to 2023 prior to which he was the Minister of Agriculture2013 to 2018. Previously, he served as the Project Director at the Eswatini Water and Agricultural Development Enterprise, the Agribusiness Project Manager at EWADE, and Project Director and Lecturer at UNESWA. He has a Master of Science (MSc) in Agriculture (International Development) from the California Polytechnic State University.

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      Agriculture, Rural Development, Blue Economy, and Sustainable Environment (ARBE)
      The Agriculture, Rural Development, Blue Economy, and Sustainable Environment (ARBE) leads the efforts to promote sustainable environmental management and agricultural development.
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      Sustainable Environment and Blue Economy (SEBE) Directorate
      DREA’s work on environment and natural resources
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      Coordinates the implementation of AU decisions related to agricultural transformation in Africa.
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      Coordinating rural development initiatives that contribute to sustainable livelihoods.

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      African Union takes active part at the COP25
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      The twenty-fifth session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 25) which is currently holding from 2 – 13 December 2019 at the IFEMA Conference Center in Madrid, Spain, is a crowd puller .

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      Regional training workshop on Application of Open Source Geographic Information System (GIS) in Tsetse and Trypanosomiasis projects, Addis Ababa, 24- 28 June 2019
      Training workshop on Application of Open Source Geographic Information System
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      AU-PATTEC organized a regional training workshop for French speaking central Africa countries on application of open source GIS in Tsetse and Trypanosomiasis projects in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia at th

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      Monitoring and Evaluation of Tsetse and Trypanosomiasis control activities in Zambia, 10- 14 June 2019
      Monitoring and Evaluation of Tsetse and Trypanosomiasis control activities
      10 Junho 2019

      Within the framework of PATTEC initiative the PATTEC Coordination Office is mandated to monitor and evaluate the implementation progress made by member states towards tsetse and trypanosomiasis con

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      PATTEC Coordination Office conducted a consultative meeting with representatives of EAC member states and T&T experts, 4- 6 March 2019
      Coordination Office conducted a consultative meeting with representatives of EAC
      4 Março 2019

      The PATTEC Coordination Office in collaboration with East African Communities (EAC) organized a consultative meeting with representatives of five EAC member states at EAC premises, Arusha, Tanzania

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      Food Safety coordination and tracking on the agenda at a side meeting of the 14t
      25 Abril 2018

      April 25, 2018, Libreville, Gabon – The Partnership for Aflatoxin Control in Africa (PACA) of the African Union Commission and the Global Food Safety Partnership (GFSP) jointly convened a side even

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