Former leaders converge in Kigali to discuss funding – News

Dar es Salaam. Former African leaders will meet in Kigali, Rwanda tomorrow to deliberate on the prospect of increased, improved and effective funding for Africa's transformation.

The President of Rwanda, Paul Kagame, will deliver the opening address is hosted by the former President of the United Republic of Tanzania, Mr. Benjamin William Mkapa, and organized by the Institute Uongozi.

The Uongozi Institute said yesterday that the two-day forum this year has the theme "Financing Africa". Transformation for Sustainable Development "and that it seeks to provide a platform to deliberate on the prospect of increased, improved and effective funding for Africa's transformation." The meeting will be held Opportunity to learn from the successes and failures of national, regional and continental attempts to solve specific funding problems and make recommendations to unlock increased funding for Africa's development. "Joseph Institute Semboja

Forum participants will include the former President of the Republic of Mozambique, Mr. Joaquim Chissano, former President of the Republic of Nigeria, Mr. Olusegun Obasanjo and their counterparts from Tunisia and Somalia , Moncef Marzouki and Hbadan Cheikh Mohamud, respectively

More than 100 other eminent leaders from the public sector, the private sector, academia and civil society will be The speakers will be: Dr. Vera Songwe, Executive Secretary of ECA, Donald Kaberuka, former President of the African Development Bank, Njuguna Ndung & u, former Governor of the Central Bank of Kenya, Dr. Mukhisa Kituyi, Secretary General Conference of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. Deputy Director General of the Organization, Dr. Yonov Frederick Agah.