Quick Facts

ICGLR Quickfacts

Establishment:Founding dates back to 2000
Membership:
  • Angola
  • Burundi
  • Central African Republic
  • Congo
  • DR Congo
  • Kenya
  • Rwanda
  • South Sudan
  • Sudan
  • Tanzania
  • Uganda
  • Zambia
ICGLR Secretariat Headquarter:Bujumbura, Burundi
Decentralized organs:
  • Lusaka (Levy Mwanawasa Regional Centre for Democracy and Good Governance)
  • Kampala (Regional Training Facility)
  • Goma (Expanded Joint Verification Mechanism-EJVM & the Joint Intelligence Fusion Centre-JIFC)
Programmes of Action:
  • Peace and Security
  • Democracy and Good Governance
  • Gender, Women and Children
  • Economic Development and Regional Integration
  • Humanitarian and Social Affairs
  • Cross-cutting Issues.
Total population:390.2 million inhabitants
Official languages:English, French, Portuguese and Arabic
ICGLR Chairperson:H.E. João Manuel Lourenço Gonçalves
RIMC Chairperson:Hon. Tete Antonio
Executive Secretary:Amb. João Samuel Caholo

The International Conference
on the Great Lakes
Region - ICGLR​

For Peace, Security, Stability and Development

The International Conference on the Great Lakes Region - ICGLR

For Peace, Security, Stability and Development