NAIROBI, Kenya, Feb 17 – The African Union (AU) Assembly of Heads of State and Government has appointed President William Ruto as the Champion for Institutional Reform.
President Ruto will be replacing Rwandan President Paul Kagame who is set to step down from the role after serving for seven years.
The head of state will be mandated with the responsibility of providing political leadership and vision and completing the Comprehensive Institutional Reform Initiative that kicked off in 2016.
The reforms involve revitalizing the structure, functioning, and focus of the African Union Commission, AU organs, and specialized agencies.
This will boost the effectiveness and efficiency managing of the African Union Programmes.
The president attended the presidential dialogue on global Financial Institutions reforms in Addis Ababa, where he stressed that the need for reform of the global financial system is a fundamental and urgent Agenda for Africa and the entire global south.
“The reform of the global financial system is an urgent agenda for Africa and, indeed, the entire Global South. These countries access funding from multilateral financial institutions at a much higher cost than others in the Global North,” he stated on X.
