The Honorable Minister was accompanied to the Forum by His Excellency Hadrammeh M. Sidibeh, High Commissioner of the Republic of The Gambia to the Republic of Senegal, Ms. Fatou Kinneh Jobe, Deputy Head of Mission and Mr. Louis Mendy, Consular Officer.
The Opening Ceremony was attended by His Excellency Macky Sall, President of the Republic of Senegal, His Excellency Joao Lourenco, President of Angola, His Excellency Jose Maria Neves, President of Cape Verde, Prime Minister of Guinea Bissau as well as the Ministers of Foreign Affairs and representatives from Saudi Arabia, Japan, Mali, Libya, Turkey, France, United States, India (among others) and International organisations.
Senegalese President Macky Sall and the current chairperson of the African Union, spoke at the opening ceremony of the event, which he hopes would support Africa's bid for a permanent seat on the G20 and the UN Security Council.
President Macky Sall focused his intervention on several aspects, including terrorism that continues to gain ground in Africa, the global economic crisis, digital abuses among other pressing matters affecting the continent.
The forum had various plenary sessions and thematic workshops that brought together more than 300 participants, African and international leaders, institutional funders and high-level experts. The discussion and exchanges created an opportunity to formulate responses to the crises that Africa is experiencing, in favor of the development of the continent and the well-being of the populations. In addition to the high-level panel that brought together heads of state around the challenges of stability and sovereignty of the continent, two strong themes were addressed during the plenary sessions.
The 1st Plenary: Strategic Empowerment of the continent in the field of security. It created the opportunity to discuss the balance sheet and strategic directions to be pursued in order to further promote the security autonomy of the African Union and the regional organisations of the continent.
On 25th October 2022 Honourable Mamadou Tangara, the minister of Foreign Affairs International Cooperation and Gambians Abroad moderated the 2nd Plenary Session on “Global Crises and Sovereignty in Africa”. The panelists included the Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hon. Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, Libyan Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Hon. Najla Al-Mangouch, Malian Foreign Minister, Hon. Abdoulaye Diop, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sudan, Vice Foreign Minister of India, Hon. Vellamvelly Muraleedharan and Madam Giovanie Biha, Special Representative of the Secretary General of l’ONU , UNOWAS.
The 2nd Plenary dealt with Global Crises and Sovereignty in Africa, with the objective of drawing the outlines of new models of African, more resilient sovereignty, in order to allow States to cope more effectively with the consequences of international crises.
