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The African Union – InterAfrican Bureau for Animal Resources (AU-IBAR) provides leadership in the development of #AnimalResources for #Africa.

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🚨 Just 4 days to #PADCo2! From June 26–27, leaders from across Africa meet in Abidjan 🇨🇮 to champion donkey welfare. ✅ Tackle skin trade ✅ Launch Pan-African strategy ✅ Reaffirm AU moratorium 📍 Radisson Blu, Abidjan #PADCO2 #PADCO2025 #DonkeyConferenceAfrica

🚨 Just 4 days to #PADCo2!

From June 26–27, leaders from across Africa meet in Abidjan 🇨🇮 to champion donkey welfare.

✅ Tackle skin trade
✅ Launch Pan-African strategy
✅ Reaffirm AU moratorium

📍 Radisson Blu, Abidjan

#PADCO2 #PADCO2025 #DonkeyConferenceAfrica
AU-IBAR (@au_ibar) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We are honored to join #WAS25 in Kampala, where African Union is showcasing its commitment to sustainable fisheries & aquaculture as drivers of Africa’s food security & growth. Discover our side events & plenary sessions this week. #FishGov2 Read more: shorturl.at/Ohp0N

We are honored to join #WAS25 in Kampala, where <a href="/_AfricanUnion/">African Union</a> is showcasing its commitment to sustainable fisheries &amp; aquaculture as drivers of Africa’s food security &amp; growth. Discover our side events &amp; plenary sessions this week.

#FishGov2 

Read more: shorturl.at/Ohp0N
FAO Livestock (@faolivestock) 's Twitter Profile Photo

#HappeningNow | Cross-border harmonisation in the Mano River region (C. d’Ivoire, Guinea, Liberia & S. Leone) with emphasis on episystems & resource mobilization for the eradication of PPR, bringing together CVOs, RECs, Civil societies, EpiLab networks, donors & partners. 🐑🐐🤝

#HappeningNow | Cross-border harmonisation in the Mano River region (C. d’Ivoire, Guinea, Liberia &amp; S. Leone) with emphasis on episystems &amp; resource mobilization for the eradication of PPR, bringing together CVOs, RECs, Civil societies, EpiLab networks, donors &amp; partners. 🐑🐐🤝
MAAIF 🇺🇬 (@maaif_uganda) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Animal sub-sector: Hon. Hon. Rwamirama Bright Kanyontore, the Minister of State for Animal Industry, joined fellow sector leaders and experts for the second Pan African Donkey Conference (#PADCo2) in Ivory Coast. #PADCo2 was organized by partner institutions convened by AU-IBAR. #AnimalHealth

Animal sub-sector: Hon. <a href="/DrRwamiramaBK/">Hon. Rwamirama Bright Kanyontore</a>, the Minister of State for Animal Industry, joined fellow sector leaders and experts for the second Pan African Donkey Conference (#PADCo2) in Ivory Coast. 

#PADCo2 was organized by partner institutions convened by <a href="/au_ibar/">AU-IBAR</a>.

#AnimalHealth
MAAIF 🇺🇬 (@maaif_uganda) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The world donkey population is about 44 million, half of which is in Asia, one quarter in Africa, and the rest in Latin America. In Africa, Ethiopia, with 7.1 million, has the largest donkey population. The population of donkeys in Uganda was 63,000 by 2021 (livestock census).

The world donkey population is about 44 million, half of which is in Asia, one quarter in Africa, and the rest in Latin America. In Africa, Ethiopia, with 7.1 million, has the largest donkey population. 
The population of donkeys in Uganda was 63,000 by 2021 (livestock census).
MAAIF 🇺🇬 (@maaif_uganda) 's Twitter Profile Photo

"Africa must arise to protect the donkey population, and in addition explore research to improve their ability to produce an abundance of offsprings or improve fertility," Hon. Hon. Rwamirama Bright Kanyontore 📸 AU-IBAR #PADCo2 #DonkeyWelfare #AnimalHealth

"Africa must arise to protect the donkey population, and in addition explore research to improve their ability to produce an abundance of offsprings or improve fertility," Hon. <a href="/DrRwamiramaBK/">Hon. Rwamirama Bright Kanyontore</a> 

📸 <a href="/au_ibar/">AU-IBAR</a>

#PADCo2
#DonkeyWelfare 
#AnimalHealth
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#LastWeek, #PADCO2 delivered historic milestones in Abidjan! 🇨🇮 ✅ Donkey Strategy (2026–2035) ✅ Abidjan Declaration: indefinite moratorium on slaughter ✅ AU Donkey Program in sight ReadMore: 🔗 shorturl.at/LPrpP #DonkeyPreservation #AbidjanDeclaration #AnimalWelfare

#LastWeek, #PADCO2 delivered historic milestones in Abidjan! 🇨🇮

✅ Donkey Strategy (2026–2035)
✅ Abidjan Declaration: indefinite moratorium on slaughter 
✅ AU Donkey Program in sight

ReadMore: 🔗 shorturl.at/LPrpP

#DonkeyPreservation #AbidjanDeclaration #AnimalWelfare
Alexis Nyandwi 🇷🇼 (@alexisnyandwi12) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Protect the Donkey, Protect the poeple: Africa's New Pact from Abidjan 🇨🇮 Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire – June 27, 2025 Last week, leaders, experts, and stakeholders from across the continent converged in Abidjan for the Second Pan-African Donkey Conference (PADCO-2)—a groundbreaking

Protect the Donkey,  Protect the poeple: Africa's New Pact from Abidjan 🇨🇮

Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire – June 27, 2025

Last week, leaders, experts, and stakeholders from across the continent converged in Abidjan for the Second Pan-African Donkey Conference (PADCO-2)—a groundbreaking
AUDA-NEPAD (@nepad_agency) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🌍 Happening Now in Cape Town: A powerful step forward for Africa’s blue economy. We’ve just kicked off the Workshop on Building the Capacity for Fisheries and Aquaculture Strategy Design—a crucial platform in Africa’s journey toward resilient, inclusive, and sustainable aquatic

🌍 Happening Now in Cape Town: A powerful step forward for Africa’s blue economy.

We’ve just kicked off the Workshop on Building the Capacity for Fisheries and Aquaculture Strategy Design—a crucial platform in Africa’s journey toward resilient, inclusive, and sustainable aquatic
Lauren Johnston 江诗伦 (@lajohnstondr) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Demand for ejiao has soared — which is bad news for donkeys The world's first donkey changed the course of civilisation "In the late 18th Century, the Jesuit missionary Dominique Parrennin described how ejiao is produced. Water was taken from a closed and guarded well, to

Demand for ejiao has soared — which is bad news for donkeys
The world's first donkey changed the course of civilisation

"In the late 18th Century, the Jesuit missionary Dominique Parrennin described how ejiao is produced. Water was taken from a closed and guarded well, to
Alexis Nyandwi 🇷🇼 (@alexisnyandwi12) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Hope for Africa’s donkeys as Ministers rally against skin trade Leaders from across Africa committed to protecting the continent’s donkeys by supporting the African Union’s ban on the donkey skin trade at the Pan-African Donkey Conference (PADCo). Read more:

Hope for Africa’s donkeys as Ministers rally against skin trade

Leaders from across Africa committed to protecting the continent’s donkeys by supporting the African Union’s ban on the donkey skin trade at the Pan-African Donkey Conference (PADCo).

Read more:
Africa CDC (@africacdc) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🗞 NEW: Africa CDC and AU-IBAR have launched two bold strategies to counter rising health threats driven by #climatechange, urbanisation, and zoonotic spillover. → Zoonotic Disease Prevention & Control Strategy (2025–2030) → Climate Change & Health Strategic Framework

🗞 NEW: <a href="/AfricaCDC/">Africa CDC</a> and <a href="/au_ibar/">AU-IBAR</a> have launched two bold strategies to counter rising health threats driven by #climatechange, urbanisation, and zoonotic spillover.

→ Zoonotic Disease Prevention &amp; Control Strategy (2025–2030)
→ Climate Change &amp; Health Strategic Framework