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<div>Date: 24/10/2018 18:07 (GMT+03:00) </div>
<div>To: Directorate of Information and Communication <<a href="mailto:DIC@africa-union.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">DIC@africa-union.org</a>> </div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 23 October 2018
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</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">The African Union Commission (AUC) is organizing the Seventh African Internet Governance Forum (AfIGF 2018) from 4 to 6 November 2018 in Khartoum, Sudan under the theme
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 discussion on issues pertinent to the Internet in Africa in general and Internet Governance issues in particular.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">The African Internet Governance Forum is Africa's multi stakeholder forum of Internet actors. It carries the voices and efforts of the African continent to the global agenda, while
 ensuring that the benefits of a viable information society accrue to every African. It was formally launched in Nairobi, during the global Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in 2011.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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