INFORMATION & COMMUNICATION DIRECTORATE - Media Advisory Venue:

MAIN SPEAKERS: - Rector of the Pan African University - Vice President of the Pan African University Council - Director of PAUGHSS - Mayor of Soa - Rector of University of Yaoundé II- SOA - Students’ delegates BACKGROUND: The African Union Commission launched the Pan African University as a flagship continental initiative in December 2011. [...] Hosted by the University of Yaoundé II in Cameroon (Central Africa), the Institute for Governance, Humanities and Social Sciences (PAUGHSS), is one of the five hubs of the Pan African University. [...] Moreover, these graduates are equipped with the skills to solve the problems specific to each sector, and demonstrate the integrity needed to support the political, economic and social integration of the continent. [...] Note to the Editor: The Pan African University (PAU) was created following Decision of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the African Union during its Fifteenth Ordinary Session in July 2010 in Kampala, African Union Headquarters P. [...] The primary aim of establishing the Pan African University was to create high-quality continental institutions that promote quality training, research, and innovation within Africa, that ensure a steady nurturing of new ideas, as well as a continuous injection of highly skilled human resources to meet the developmental needs of the Continent.