igali 1 November 2010 – “The ttime has come for us to speed up the establishment of the African Economic Community, which has been on the drawing board for almost two decades”, said Mr. Erastus Mwencha, Deputy Chairperson of African Union Commission, on the occasion of the opening of the 6th Ordinary Session of the Conference of African Ministers of Trade which took place today, Monday 1 November 2010, in Kigali, Rwanda, under the chair of the Prime Minister of Rwanda, His Excellency Bernard Makuza.