Africa: AU urged to implement monitoring mechanism

The African Union (AU) has been charged to set up a mechanism to monitor the decisions taken by its various authorities to ensure implementation, Désiré Assogbavi, an official of the Oxfam NGO said Saturday in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. 'AU holds at least two ordinary summits and several high-powered meetings every year. Important decisions come out from them for African populations but only ten per cent of the total of those AU measures are applied in the end. We must get out of this situation,' Mr. Assogbavi, who is the director of Oxfam liaison Office to the African Union said in a PANA interview. The African Union member countries have agreed to devote ten per cent of their public spending to agriculture and 15 per cent to the health sector.