{President Paul Kagame yesterday received the African Union Reform steering committee in the fourth meeting held at his country home in Muhazi sector of Rwamagana district, Eastern Province.}
Information from the presidency indicates that their discussions revolved around seeking needed capacities to enable African Union attain its goals and implement the Kigali Decision on Financing AU projects.
The Kigali Decision requires AU member states to remit 0.2% of taxes on imports to the African Union through National Banks.
Members also discussed other possible reforms which President Kagame will present before AU in a report during the next African Union Summit scheduled in January 2016 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
The African Union Reform Advisory committee include Rwandan Dr. Donald Kaberuka, the former President of the African Development Bank, and Dr Acha Leke – a Senior Partner at McKinsey & Co.; Dr. Carlos Lopes, the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, Strive Masiyiwa – Executive Chairman of Econet Wireless, and Tito Mboweni, former Governor of the South African Reserve Bank.
Others include a team of women : J. Mohammed – Nigeria’s Minister of Environment; Mariam Mahamat Nour – the Chadian Minister of Economic Planning and International Cooperation; Cape Verde’s Cristina Duarte – the Former Minister of Finance and Planning, and Cameroonian economist Vera Songwe, the Regional Director for West and Central Africa at the International Finance Corporation.
President Kagame was assigned to lead the African Union overhaul during the African Union Summit held in Kigali in July, 2016.
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