African Conference of Commandants

Opening Ceremony

The 3rd African Conference of Commandants is Held in Cairo, Egypt, 8-14 November 2009

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“The role played by the colleges in the continent is sacrosanct.” Major General Ahmed Abd Allah Muhammed, Commandant of the Egyptian Command and Staff College (ECSC), spoke this during this year’s Conference of Commandants, which was hosted by the ECSC over the past week from the 8-14 November in Cairo, Egypt.

Besides the Egyptian Command and Staff College, the conference was attended by eighteen other colleges: Libya Command and Staff College; Kenya Defence Staff College; Uganda Senior Command and Staff College; Tanzania Command and Staff College; Ghana Armed Forces Command and Staff College; Algeria Command and Staff College Nigerian Armed Forces Command and Staff College; Botswana Defence Command and Staff College: Namibia Military School; South African National War College; Sudanese Joint Staff and Command College; Zambia Defence Services Command and Staff College; Zimbabwe Command and Staff College. The Senegal Armed Forces’ Director Training and Doctrine also attended the event. Other institutions represented were the Peace and Security Department of the African Union, ECOWAS, the SADC Organ, the Defence attaché from the embassy of Tunisia in Egypt, and the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation through the NATO Defence College. Participants included seven Major Generals, eight Brigadier-Generals, twelve Colonels, three Lieutenant Colonels and one Captain. The event was also attended by several host senior officers of ranks ranging from Major Generals to Captains and a number of other support Egyptian non-commissioned officers.

The Conference endorsed decisions made during the previous conferences and stressed the objectives of ACoC whose aim is to enhance harmonization, interoperability, commonality, standardization and cooperation between African Command and Staff Colleges as a contribution to the African Standby Force (ASF) and Peace Support Operations (PSOs), as applied during this year’s Conference theme of “The Role of African Command and Staff Colleges in Training for African Union Peacekeeping Operations.”

The next Conference of Commandants will be held in Uganda in 2010.

Maj Gen Ahmed Abd Allah - Commandant of the Egyptian Command and Staff College
and Maj Gen Kwesi Yankson - Commandant of the Ghana Armed Forces Command Staff College

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