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The African Union is today launching a €7 million Multi Donor Action with the European Union and the German Federal Ministry of Economic Development and Cooperation.

Today, the chief negotiators from the EU and the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States reached a political deal on the text for a new Partnership Agreement that will succeed the Cotonou Agreement.

The EU approved today a €70 million contribution to the Sudan Family Support Programme, helping the country's ambitious economic reforms, whilst reducing the strains of the global pandemic on Sudanese families.

Today, the Africa-Europe Foundation was established by Friends of Europe and the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, in partnership with ONE and the Africa Climate Foundation.

As part of Team Europe’s global response to the coronavirus pandemic, the European Union announced today a new €20 million programme to support the preparedness and response capacities of our partners in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.

Today, the European Commission and the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy put forward ambitious plans to promote gender equality and women's empowerment through all external action of the European Union.

The European Union today reconfirmed its long-standing solidarity and partnership with the people of Afghanistan, pledging support of €1.2 billion over the period 2021–2025 in both long-term and emergency assistance at the 2020 Afghanistan Conference

Half of Team's Europe global recovery package to help partners address the COVID-19 pandemic, which has increased to €38.5 billion, has already been disbursed, showing the EU is delivering on its commitments.

The EU will contribute €183 million to the IMF's Catastrophe Containment and Relief Trust for debt relief in 29 low-income countries, allowing them to increase their social, health and economic spending in response to the COVID-19 crisis.