Regional integration by aligning civil aviation policies to achieve common objectives.
Secondly, harmonize ALL regulations within the AFI region.
As CC has mentioned in reference to the AU, any initiative like that remains just a talk shop and an excuse for junketeering and siphoning up expenses. Nothing will come of it due to the tribal suspicions and power hungry fools that plague Africa.
...K.Nkrumah, P. Lumumba, J.Kenyatta, etc....
If you think they were doing anything but taking care of tribal and ideological business once in power you may need to spend more time in Africa.
Things are going to get worse before they get better, IMO. The short sighted venality of African leaders will affect pretty much the entire continent until the tribal mindset is dropped. A weak opposition does not make for good democratic principles and the checks and balances that come with them, but that is sadly something not well understood in Africa. The will to get it right is just not there, SA being a prime example. Violent protests about service delivery leading to beatings and protestors being shot by police, yet the same old bunch of corrupt and inept clowns is voted in again by those same protestors.