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Author: Lottie Stainer - UITP On World Public Transport Day (17 April), we celebrate the millions of journeys that connect us to work, life, and one another. Additionally, for the TRANS SAFE project, public transport is far more than a convenience; it is a life-saving pillar of sustainable and integrated mobility. In Africa, where road traffic fatality rates are the highest in the world at 19.6 per 100,000 population, shifting the focus towards walking, cycling, and public transport is an...

Patrick Kinyanjui - Regional Coordinator Africa, Global Alliance of NGOs for Road Safety The AU marked the Road Safety Day 2025 with a call to ratify the African Road Safety Charter. Photo: AU On 10 February 2026 , the African continent reached a historic turning point in its road safety journey. With the ratification of the African Road Safety Charter by the 15 th AU Member State, the minimum threshold required for the Charter to become legally enforceable has been met, and Africa now has...

21 January 2026, 15:00–16:30 EAT The African Road Safety Observatory (AfRSO) was launched in 2018 under the leadership of the African Union Commission (AUC) with support from a range of international partners. Since January 2025, its Secretariat has been strengthened thanks to a grant from the EU in the context of the EU-AUC cooperation on Transport in Africa. AfRSO aims to strengthen the collection, analysis, and sharing of reliable road safety data across African countries, as well as to...