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Please be advised that the ARIPO Secretariat will be closed over the 🐰Easter Holiday. Normal operations will resume on 🗓️07 April 2026. The 24-Hour ARIPO e-Service Platform remains available for your convenience. 🔗eservice.aripo.org/pmi/PMIMain.do #Easter

As International Women’s Month draws to a close, we reaffirm our commitment to advancing women’s participation and leadership in intellectual property. The women of @_ARIPO play a central role in shaping our work and driving impact across the region. Their contribution strengthens our institution and reflects the future we are building—one where opportunity, fairness, and innovation go hand in hand. We celebrate and appreciate you, and remain committed to sustaining this momentum. #WomensMonth #WomenInIP #ARIPOat50

Africa’s innovation future depends on institutions that are decisive, collaborative, and outcome-focused. At @_ARIPO, we are fostering an enabling IP environment where ideas can grow, investment can thrive, and innovation contributes directly to sustainable development. Through collaboration with universities in our Member States, IP is now part of the curriculum at Africa University, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, and University of Dar es Salaam.

As @_ARIPO marks 50 years, we do so with clarity of purpose: to make intellectual property work for Africa’s development. Our next chapter will link IP to real outcomes—commercialisation, competitiveness, investment, jobs, and cultural vitality.

🎊Congratulations to Uganda 🇺🇬 on the passage of the Copyright & Neighbouring Rights Amendment Bill 2025. @URSBHQ @Parliament_Ug @MoJCA_UG #ARIPO is encouraged by this progress and remains committed to providing support consistent with the #KampalaProtocol on the Voluntary Registration of Copyright and Related Rights. 🤝 #creativeeconomy #copyright #ARIPOat50

Happy Independence Day, Namibia! 🇳🇦 #ARIPOMemberStates @bipa_nam

Africa’s journey toward gender equity is inseparable from the strength of its innovation ecosystems. When women are enabled to create, protect, and commercialise their ideas, the entire continent benefits. Every woman who patents an invention, registers a brand, or protects a creative work strengthens Africa’s competitiveness and shapes its future. @_ARIPO #WomensMonth #ARIPOat50

A thriving knowledge economy grows when every voice has the opportunity to contribute. When people across all demographics can create and protect their ideas, innovation can emerge from anywhere — from rural communities to urban centres, from young minds to established enterprises. Through inclusive intellectual property systems, @_ARIPO helps ensure ideas from every corner of our region can take root, scale, and create impact. #ARIPOat50

The @_ARIPO Management Team has convened its Annual Strategy Review and 2026 Planning Session. As ARIPO marks its 50th Anniversary, we are aligning priorities, reviewing performance, and strengthening readiness to serve Africa’s evolving innovation and intellectual property landscape. This session reinforces ARIPO’s resilience, relevance, and readiness to deliver meaningful impact for Member States.

In my speech delivered by the Director of IP, Mr. David Njuguna, I underscored that, as @_ARIPO, our objective is to ensure that the knowledge exchanged during this programme translates into stronger and more consistent patent examination practices across our Member States. This training, therefore, contributes to strengthening the foundations of a patent system that gives African innovators the confidence that their ideas will be examined with rigour, protected with integrity, and positioned to compete globally.

Today, @_ARIPO welcomes Patent Examiners from across Africa for the @WIPO Regional Training on Patent Examination and the Patent Cooperation Treaty, hosted by ARIPO with the valued support of the @JPO_JPN. A robust African knowledge economy requires a strong patent examination system that matches the ambition of our innovators. I extend my appreciation to our partners for collaboration on this programme, which reflects our shared commitment to strengthening the technical excellence of patent examination in the African Region.

Africa’s innovation future depends on systems that leave no one behind. Inclusive intellectual property frameworks ensure ideas from every corner of society are protected, commercialised, and transformed into engines of sustainable development. At @_ARIPO, inclusion is not optional — it is foundational.

As @_ARIPO marks its 50th Anniversary year, I extend sincere appreciation to IP Agents and Attorneys who rely on the ARIPO system. Your expertise and professionalism help innovators and businesses protect and commercialise ideas across our Member States. Your partnership strengthens the efficiency and quality of our services and advances Africa’s intellectual property ecosystem. #ARIPOat50 #IP

Creativity took centre stage on Monday as we unveiled ARIPO’s Anniversary logo. In September last year, we launched the ARIPO Golden Jubilee Logo Competition, which was open for two weeks. We received an incredible 219 entries. The wide range of submissions reflected strong enthusiasm and engagement in shaping ARIPO’s visual identity. The winning logo by @KellionMatina (Zambia) beautifully captures our progress over the past 50 years and the exciting, untapped possibilities for the next 50 years in advancing intellectual property development. #ARIPOat50

Today we launched the @_ARIPO 50th Anniversary Year — a defining moment of reflection, pride and renewed purpose. On 9 December 2026, ARIPO will mark five decades as a pillar of Africa’s intellectual property system, advancing innovation, creativity and enterprise across our region. Grateful for the support of our Guest of Honour, Honourable Nobert T. Mazungunye, representing Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi, and for the steadfast leadership of the ARIPO Council of Ministers. #ARIPOat50

The launch of #ARIPOat50 is not only a celebration of the past — it is a declaration of intent. We recommit to building an IP ecosystem that empowers African innovators, strengthens economies, and secures prosperity for generations to come. The next chapter begins now. #ARIPOat50 #IP4Africa

.@_ARIPO’s Golden Jubilee will be celebrated under the theme “Fostering innovation, creativity, and a sustainable future for Africa.” As custodians of this legacy, we honour the visionaries who laid the foundation, the Member States who sustained the mandate, and the innovators and creators who give meaning to our work. Their belief built ARIPO. Their courage carried it forward. Their ambition now propels us into the future — as we build the next 50 years of Africa’s intellectual property leadership. #ARIPOat50 #IP

1 day to go! Its almost time🕺💃 #milestone #IP4Africa

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Last evening, we honoured Mrs Fungai Chipise for 42 years of distinguished service to ARIPO. From Copy Typist to Finance Associate, her journey mirrors our institution’s growth. She didn’t just witness ARIPO’s evolution — she helped power it with diligence, integrity and mentorship. Thank you for the legacy. #ARIPO #Leadership