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Today, the UN Summit on Biodiversity is taking place under the theme 'Urgent Action on Biodiversity for Sustainable Development.' Many Heads of state and government are attending. President Ursula von der Leyen will make her statement at 5pm (CET).

Today, the European Commission has announced a new €22 million programme “Health Support in response to COVID-19 in the Pacific”.

Following the first four discussions in the series, the fifth ‘In Conversation With’ takes place on the 1st of October 2020. The strategic focus of the discussion will be on “Migration, Mobility and Good Governance in the Africa-EU partnership”.

On Sunday, the European Union and the World Bank signed an agreement worth €92.2 million for the Sudan Family Support Programme. France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and Sweden also announced their support, adding another €67 million.

Digital transformation can help Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region recover more quickly from the COVID‑19 crisis, according to the Latin American Economic Outlook (LEO) 2020: Digital Transformation for Building Back Better.

Africa and Europe have a shared interest and much to gain from one another in accelerating the progress of the global agenda for sustainable development and working together to address the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The European Commission today kicks off an initiative to improve sustainability in the cocoa sector.

Beyond the introduction of the African Continental Free Trade Area, there is no area more important to Africa’s economic growth and integration than the potential created by digital transformation and the advent of the 4th industrial revolution.

As Africa and Europe seek to re-set their partnership, the EU is engaging with its partners across both continents about the long-term vision, as well as the diverging and converging issues at the heart of this established cooperation.