Ruto meets AU leadership, agree on reforms to transform Africa

President Ruto met with Members of the High-Level Panel on AU Governance, Peace and Security, the High Representative on Financing the Union, officials led by African Union Commission (AUC) Chairperson Mahmoud Ali Youssouf and other officials from the Kenya Mission in Addis Ababa, Foreign Affairs Principal Secretary Korir Sing'oei and the Special Envoy for the Champion on AU Institutional Reform.

Ruto, in his capacity as AU's champion for Institutional Reforms, received a consolidated report with recommendations on the key priority areas of the reform agenda set to be covered in the upcoming Special Summit on African Union Reforms, scheduled to be held on November 26, 2025, in  Angola.

They included the revitalisation of peace and security frameworks, sustainable financing of the Union, operationalisation of the African Court of Justice, streamlining AU's format and agenda and categorisation of AU Assembly and Executive Council decisions.

The leaders called for the re-commitment of AU's reform agenda by member states and all AU stakeholders, to accelerate the completion of the reform process to streamline the road to the realisation of Agenda 2063 aspirations.

The meeting also underscored the importance of revitalising the African Governance Architecture (AGA) and the African Peace and Security Architecture (APSA) in addressing the prevailing and emerging complex peace and security challenges.

Key recommendations included repositioning Africa amidst a geopolitical reset, revitalisation of Pan-Africanism, modalities for adequate and sustainable financing of the Union, streamlining the agenda and the format of the AU Assembly and appropriate categorisation of the Assembly decisions in accordance with the Rules of Procedure.