When African leaders convene in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, next weekend for the 30th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the Heads of State and Government of the African Union, the thorny issue of financing the organisation is, once again, expected to take centre stage.
A self-financing scheme adopted in June 2015 in Johannesburg and July 2016 in Kigali has registered modest success with only 21 out of 55 countries having implemented it. The scheme requires member states to levy a 0.2 per cent tax on eligible imports to finance the AU.
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