Cairo, Egypt – Amb. Bankole Adeoye, African Union (AU) Commissioner for Political Affairs, Peace and Security visited CCCPA on 23 December 2021 to discuss avenues to strengthen cooperation between the AU and CCCPA. The meeting came within the framework of his visit to Cairo for the launch of the African Union Center for Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Development (AUC-PCRD) hosted in Cairo.

Ambassador Ahmed Abdel-Latif, Director-General of CCCPA, presented the Center’s various programs, which aim to build the capacities of African countries in the areas of peace and security, particularly conflict prevention, peacekeeping, peacebuilding, disarmament demobilization and reintegration (DDR), as well as preventing radicalization and extremism leading to terrorism (PRELT) and enhancing the role of women in peace and security, as well as climate change and its implications on security and development.

Amb. Abdel-Latif also highlighted the long-standing fruitful cooperation with the AU, noting that CCCPA is an AU Center of Excellence, and the focal point for training of the North African Regional Capability (NARC) of the African Standby Force. In addition, in light of CCCPA’s role as the Executive Secretariat of the Aswan Forum for Sustainable Peace and Development, Amb. Abdel-Latif pointed to the effective CCCPA-AU collaboration within the framework of the preparatory process for the Forum’s Third Edition (to be held in 2022).

On his part, Commissioner Adeoye expressed his appreciation for Egypt's pivotal role in supporting peace and stability in Africa and the valuable efforts undertaken by CCCPA in the fields of peacebuilding and post-conflict reconstruction and development. He stressed AU’s keenness to benefit from the extensive expertise of the Center in the fields of training and capacity building in order to kickstart the AUC-PCRD’s activities and enable it to carry out its tasks. On his part, Amb. Abdel-Latif affirmed CCCPA’s readiness to fully support the work of the AUC-PCRD.