{"id":36397,"date":"2017-11-30T16:51:46","date_gmt":"2017-11-30T16:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/africa-s-future-depends-on-its-quality-of\/"},"modified":"2017-12-04T17:10:41","modified_gmt":"2017-12-04T17:10:41","slug":"africa-s-future-depends-on-its-quality-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/africa-s-future-depends-on-its-quality-of\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa\u2019s future depends on its quality of cooperation-Kagame"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kagame was speaking yesterday at the African Union-European Union Summit 2017 at Abidjan, Ivory Coast.<\/p>\n

The head of State said the gathering of Europe and Africa takes place at a time when they are all looking for tightening the unity of respective regions and collaborate more effectively.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe institutional reform of the AU currently underway aims to make our organisation more focused, effective and financially stable. The decision tells the collective determination of African leaders to accelerate progress towards AU founding ambitions,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He said as Africa\u2019s future depends on the quality of cooperation within itself, it is their responsibility to mobilise the resources to pay for important programmes that benefit people while alleviating the burden on partners.<\/p>\n

\u201cA robust implementation mechanism has been put in place at both political and technical levels,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe process is characterised by flexibility in accommodating the specific needs of member states while maintaining fidelity to the core principles, outcomes and more fundamentally, ownership of the organisation\u2019s activities,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Kagame went on saying the critical role already played by the Regional Economic Blocks will also be enhanced by a clear division of labour and improved coordination with the African Union Commission.<\/p>\n

He said the reform represents a landmark opening to strengthen the partnership between Europe and Africa which are permanent neighbours and have a shared understanding of numerous key interests, notably in terms of security, migration, environment, trade and investment.<\/p>\n

\u201cA test of our collaboration and our humanity lies clearly before us with the unfolding tragedy of African migrants in Libya and in similar situations elsewhere. We must act together,\u201d he urged.<\/p>\n

A more decisive and self-sufficient AU will mean more favourable and reliable external partnerships for everyone involved. Continued cooperation and understanding from the EU is an important factor in the success of this effort, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is no accident that the institutional reform puts youth engagement and participation at the centre. Guaranteeing opportunity, safety and a voice to the young people of Europe and Africa is the best defence of our shared values and our common future,\u201d Kagame observed.<\/p>\n

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The forces reshaping the global economic and security environment mean that Africa\u2019s future is increasingly depending on the quality of cooperation within our own continent, President Paul Kagame has said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-36397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36397"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=36397"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=36397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}