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Ambassador João Samuel Caholo, Executive Secretary of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR), and Ambassador Gilberto Da Piedade Verissimo, President of the Commission of the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS), signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on Sunday, May 7, 2023, in Bujumbura, where the ICGLR secretariat Headquarters are located. […]
Secretariat of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region Newsletter. Upload PDF
8th march 2023 On the occasion of International Women’s Day 2023, we are happy to join the world in commemorating and celebrating women’s achievements and contributions to the peace and security efforts in the great lake region. Women are the central caretakers of families, and everyone is affected when they are excluded from decision making […]
Bujumbura, 1st February 2023 – Refugee Management Commissioners from ICGLR Member States,parliamentarians, national ICGLR coordinators, representatives from refugee-led organizations,NGOs and multilateral agencies working with displaced people gathered in Bujumbura from 31January to 1 February to exchange good practices and propose policy changes to strengthenrefugees’ livelihoods and to advance comprehensive durable solutions for refugees in the […]
Bujumbura, Dec. 22 (ICGLR) – The Conference Secretariat of the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) on Wednesday welcomed the adoption unanimously by the UN Security Council of the resolution to renew the mandate of the UN peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the DRC (MONUSCO) and the resolution to lift notification requirements for arms shipments […]
The Secretariat of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region is gravely concerned by reports of massacres allegedly committed against civilians by M23 armed movement in Kishishe located in Rutshuru territory in the North-Kivu in the night of 29th and 30th November 2022, which led to … Download PDF
At the invitation of His Excellency João Manuel Gonçalves Lourenço, President of the Republic of Angola, African Union Champion for Peace and Reconciliation in Africa and Mediator designated to maintain the dialogue between DRC and Rwanda by the 16th Extraordinary Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the African Union in […]
Secretariat of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region Newsletter. Upload PDF
The Secretariat of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region is very concerned about the resumption of fighting between the DRC Armed Forces known as FARDC against the armed elements of the March 23 Movement known as “M23” since this Thursday, October 20, 2022 in the territory of … (Download PDF)
Press conference to issue the Preliminary Statement of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) following the …(Click HERE for more details)
