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Kampala, Uganda – On 28 May 2025, Heads of State and Government from the signatory countries of the 2013 Addis Ababa Peace, Security, and Cooperation (PSC) Framework for the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the region gathered in Kamp
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President Museveni hosts regional leaders at State House Entebbe on the occasion of the Regional Oversight Mechanism High Level Meeting on 28th May 2025
Left-Right: Nene Bah, Senior Gender Advisor, Office of the Special Envoy for the Great Lakes region; Hon. Janviere Ndirahisha, Regional Director for the ICGLR regional training facility in Uganda; Amb. João Samuel Caholo, Executive Secretary of the ICGLR; and Faridah Kibowa, Chair of Uganda National Women Council. Kampala, Uganda, 27 Nov. 2023 (Photo: Fiona Irakoze, ICGLR).
Left to right: Bruno Lemarquis, (left) Deputy Special Representative to the UN Stabilization Mission in the DRC (MONUSCO), Yacoub El Hillo, (2nd left), Regional Director for the Development Coordination Office for Africa, Susan Ngongi Namondo, UN Resident Coordinator in Uganda, Bagiire Vincent Waiswa, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Uganda, Huang Xia, UN Special Envoy for the Great Lakes region (2nd right), and Parfait Onanga-Anyanga, (right), Special Representative of Secretary-General to the AU and Head of the UN Office to the AU (UNOAU), during the second SPG Retreat held in Kampala, Uganda. Photo (William Sila, Office of the Special Envoy for the Great Lakes region).
High profile participants at the retreat on the revitalization of the Peace, Security and Cooperation Framework for the DRC and the region. Durban, South Africa, 31 October 2023 (Photo: Penangnini Toure)
Special Envoy Huang Xia briefing the Security Council on the situation in Africa’s Great Lakes region. New York, 17 October 2023 (Photo: Manuel Elías)
Participants during the "Strategic Minerals' Meeting" held in Lusaka Zambia, 8-10 August. Photo, Liz Guantai, OSESG-GL
Participants of the 7th Statutory meeting of the Forum of Parliaments of ICGLR member states’ Committee on Economic Development, Regional Integration and Natural Resources, pose for a photo after the official opening of the meeting. Photo © Office of the Deputy Speaker, Parliament of the Republic of Uganda.
Participants at the High-table of the RCNR meeting: Ambassador João Samuel CAHOLO ICGLR Executive Secretary (l) with other panelists during the meeting on the fight against the illegal exploitation of natural resources, held on 25 - 27 in Luanda, Angola
Participants at the meeting of Political Affairs Officers and Peace and Development Advisors of UN presences in the Great Lakes region. From left Ms. Fatou Thiam, Director of the Political Affairs unit in the Office of the Special Envoy for the Great Lakes region, and Mr. François Grignon, Director of MONUSCO Political Affairs Division. Photo: Penangnini Toure