Paul Kagame Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ==Chairperson of the African Union== Kagame was [[Chairperson of the African Union]] from 28 January 2018 to 10 February 2019.{{sfn|Mumbere|2018}}{{sfn|Mohamed (I)|2019}} As Chair, Kagame promoted the [[Single African Air Transport Market]] (SAATM) and the African [[Continental Free Trade Area]].{{sfn|Mumbere|2018}} The proposed Continental Free Trade Area was signed on 21 March 2018 by 44 of the 55 AU nations.{{sfn|Arab News|2018}}{{sfn|Agence France-Presse|2019}} By the time he left office in February 2019, the Continental Free Trade had already been ratified by 19 of the 22 nations needed for it to officially go into effect.{{sfn|Agence France-Presse|2019}} Kagame also pushed through a reform of African Union structures in an effort to improve their effectiveness and make them financially sustainable.{{sfn|Turianskyi|Gruzd|2019|p=2}} Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page