Al-Sisi opens the African Cooperation Forum and chairs the ODNA-NEPAD summit

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi will open the forum, which brings together African officials and leaders with representatives of the business sector and economic institutions, to discuss opportunities for cooperation and support development and economic integration within the continent.

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In conjunction with the forum's activities, Al-Sisi chairs the summit of the founding countries of the African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD), co-chaired with the President of Angola, who chairs the Steering Committee of Heads of State and Government for the agency.

The summit includes the founding countries of the agency: Egypt, Algeria, Nigeria, Senegal and South Africa, in addition to the President of Burundi in his capacity as the current President of the African Union, representatives of the African Union Commission and the Executive Director of the AUDA-NEPAD Agency.

The activities will continue on Sunday, October 4, with Egypt hosting the eighth mid-year coordination meeting of the African Union, with the participation of a number of African leaders and heads of regional economic blocs.

According to the Egyptian presidency, President Sisi is scheduled to deliver the opening and closing speeches of the meeting, in his capacity as president of the host country, while bilateral and multilateral meetings will be held over the course of two days with a number of African leaders and officials.

According to the Egyptian presidency, the meetings will discuss ways to enhance joint African action and advance development and continental integration efforts, at a time when New El Alamein is turning into a center for a number of activities that combine the political and economic dimensions of joint African action.