On 30 June 2021, UNREC held a working session with the Executive Secretary of the Nairobi-based Regional Centre on Small Arms in the Great Lakes Region, the Horn of Africa and Bordering States (RECSA). The RECSA Executive Secretary, General Badreldin Elamin Abdelgadir wished to revive the cooperation of its organization with UNREC in the framework of the existing MOU with ODA and solicit UNREC support to enhance joint collaboration at national level with national commissions on SALW but also at strategic level with the African Union to advance its flagship initiative to ‘Silencing the Guns in Africa’.