AcoGaps participates in the AU forum on good governance and political transformation

Upon an invitation of the African Union Commission for Political Affairs, Security and Peace, the Office of the United Nations Secretary-General’s Envoy to the Horn of Africa, and the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), Dr. Mahmoud Zain Al-Abdine, Director of the African Center for Governance, Peace and Transition Studies (AcoGaps), participated in the high-level forum on strengthening democracy, good governance and political transformation comprehensive meeting at the African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa on June 24/25.
Representatives of the governments of the countries of the Horn of Africa, heads and leaders of major enlightenment and research centers from all over the continent, along with experts and specialists, participated in the forum along with senior officials from the African Union, the United Nations. and IGAD.
AcoGaps Director indicated that the forum aimed to identify the opportunities and challenges of democratic governance and political transformation in the Horn of Africa, determine its current trends, and strengthen cooperation between countries, non-governmental organizations, and civil society organizations, especially youth and women, in order to strengthen governance, democratic and political transformation.
The forum also aimed at proposing strategies for civil society organizations to be more efficient and effective in engaging in constructive partnerships with regional international systems in order to support issues of good governance and political transformation.
Zain Al-Abdeni indicated that developments in Sudan received a great deal of deliberations and discussion from officials. and participants in the conference,
The AcoGaps submitted a number of interventions in which it corrected much of the incorrect information about the ongoing war in describing it as a war between two generals, indicating that it is a regional war directed against Sudan under the auspices of the UAE, with great support from Chad and a number of international powers, and the participation of mercenaries from eighteen countries, that the United Nations, the African Union, and IGAD had a direct role in the outbreak of war due to the exclusionary approach practiced by the political mechanism, the blatant interference in internal affairs, and the failure to support the success of the transitional period.
He affirmed that armed forces, the joint forces of the armed struggle and popular resistance movements are achieving great victories in all fighting fronts, with a noticeable decline within the Rapid Support Forces milktia, and that the Sudanese people are lining up around the armed forces in their just war against the
Rapid Support mlitia.
Zain Al-Abdeni blamed international donors for the weakness of their response to support humanitarian aid, as the response rate did not exceed six percent, and that the role of the African Union, African countries and organizations was frustrating due to the blatant weakness of their response to support the Sudanese people.
He proposed to the African Union to establish an African agency for humanitarian aid.