Regional Meeting on the Operationalization of the ECOWAS Chapter of the African Union’s initiative “Silencing the Guns in Africa by 2030”

 From 22 to 24 June 2021, UNREC participated in a Regional meeting on the operationalization of the ECOWAS Chapter of the African Union’s initiative to “Silencing the Gun in Africa”, including how to strengthen the criminal justice response to illicit trafficking in firearms in West Africa. The meeting was organized by UNODC and ECOWAS and financed by Germany and France. UNREC made several presentations, including on how to prepare national action plans to fight the illicit flow of SALW. ECOWAS called for a tripartite UN-AU-ECOWAS meeting to coordinate the ECOWAS chapter of the AU’s initiative to “Silencing the Guns in Africa”.