African Union List of Continent 2022 Priorities 

Top five priorities for the African Union  Building Nutrition and Food Security top African Union Agenda Africa requires an equitable representation at the United Nations The Assembly of African Union Heads of State and Government held its 35th Ordinary Session early February this year and listed the continent's top five priorities. The Assembly meeting saw the handover of the rotating leadership of the Union from H.E. President Antoine Tshisekedi of the Democratic Republic of Congo who was Chairperson in 2021, to President Macky Sall of Senegal. The Heads of State and Government launched the African Union Theme of the Year 2022 as Year of Nutrition: “Strengthening resilience in nutrition and food security on the African continent: Strengthening agro food systems, health and social protection systems for the acceleration of human, social and economic capital development”. Five priorities were listed: Resilience to Covid-19 and Africa manufacture of vaccines, action against terrorism, Africa’s benefit in multilateralism, institutional reform of the AU and the question of Palestine, in that order. Other than the shortlisted five, the overall AU continent priorities remain to be peace and security, infrastructure and energy, climate change, innovative development financing, and training youth and women's empowerment.   Covid-19, Africa’s