Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi (holding gavel) takes over the chairmanship of the African Union from Rwanda’s Paul Kagame (left) during the AU Summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on February 10, 2019 . Picture: AFP
The exit of Rwandan President Paul Kagame as the African Union chairman has left questions about the future of reforms that he initiated, whose implementation has been stalled by dithering by the continent’s biggest economies.
At the closing ceremony of the 32nd AU Heads of State Summit, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, who took over from President Kagame, refused to answer questions from journalists, as had been the tradition with his predecessor, raising fears that transparency may have gone out of the window.
