ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, November 25, 2015/APO (African Press Organization)/ —
The African Union Border Program (AUBP) convened a two-day coordination meeting with the Regional Economic Communities (RECs) from 24 to 25 November 2015, at the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) Headquarters in Lusaka, Zambia. The meeting is a follow-up to the 1st Coordination Meeting held in October 2013 in Abuja, Nigeria. Both meetings aim to adopt an inclusive approach to Border Management by creating a platform for the RECs to interact among themselves and update the AUBP on their border management initiatives for the implementation of the Program.
The meeting highlighted the importance of the RECs in the implementation of the AUBP in accelerating regional and continental integration and the need for a common approach to border management at all levels.
The meeting provided an opportunity to review and update the AUBP-RECs Joint Roadmap for Border Management adopted in Abuja in 2013, and came up with a draft Report on the status of borders on the continent and the different initiatives on cross- border cooperation to be presented at the ministerial conference in 2016.
The meeting was organised with the support of the GIZ/AUBP.
