Aswan Forum

🌐The Aswan Forum for Sustainable Peace and Development. Secretariat @CairoPeaceKeep. #AswanForum #AFYouthDialogue

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⏳3 Months to go to #AswanForumVI

Once again, Aswan will bring together African and global voices to shape solutions for sustainable peace, security, and development.

"Redefining the Global Commons: Africa’s Agency in the Age of Disruption."

📍21–22 November 2026 | Aswan

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🗣️“The focus is never on the mediators themselves, but on the process and the peace to be achieved on the ground.” – Sibylle Obrist, Head of the Peace and Human Rights Division, Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, Swiss Confederation @SwissMFAmena

#VoicesfromtheAswanForum

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🗣️“African multilateral financial institutions have now come to play a very systemically important part of the continent with a combined balance sheet in excess of $7 billion, and these need to be leveraged to be able to support African development.” - Yusuf Daya, @afreximbank

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🗣️”We must look beyond short-term responses and address the root causes, ensuring access to education, financial support, and proper registration for all refugees and asylum seekers.” - Dr. Vincent Biruta, Minister of Interior of the Republic of Rwanda.

#VoicesfromtheAswanForum

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🗣️“We must shift from fragmented responses to solutions. Solving displacement requires integrated, locally driven approaches that reduce humanitarian caseloads, embed preparedness, and build community resilience to withstand future shocks and promote lasting stability”- @AbdikerM

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Amb. Seif Kandeel, DG of #CCCPA welcomed H.E. Maria Lucas Mozambique’s FM. They discussed the FM’s participation in #AswanForumVI & explored cooperation on preventing #Radicalization & #Extremism leading to #Terrorism & management #NaturalResources.

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🗣️ “Refugees and displaced people are not merely victims - they are agents of change and peace-builders. Their voices must be heard, and their participation must shape the solutions that define their future.” - Nada Fadol, Refugee Leader and Founder of the Rouh Initiative

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⏳ 4 Months to go to #AswanForumVI!

This year, the Aswan Forum for Sustainable Peace and Development takes place under the theme:

🌍 "Redefining the Global Commons: Africa's Agency in the Age of Disruption."

📍 Aswan, Egypt | 21–22 November 2026

#Peace #Progress #Prosperity

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🗣️ “There is a dissonance between the mediation efforts we hear on the Track I level and between the work that we do in community-based mediation, where I believe that peace exists.”- Fatima Akilu, Exe. Director of @Neem_foundation

#VoicesfromtheAswanForum #Africa #Mediation

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🗣️This is a moment of awakening, a time for Africa to speak not as a continent on the margins of history, but as a center actor, including a new global equilibrium based on fairness, respect and shared prosperity. @amb_tete, Minister of @angola_Mirex &Chair of the @_AfricanUnion

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📺Full Video on YouTube https://t.co/R92nGuOv3C

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"Aswan Forum is a fantastic platform where we have the ability to discuss, among different African leaders, the impact AI would have. Not only the very positive impact [...] but also the risks and threats that they will come if not addressed" - Omar Mohsine, @ODET_UN

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Watch the full video on YouTube 📺https://t.co/6MlGaYxDP5

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“We're facing a crisis because all the principles that we’ve spent so many years to elaborate that have been the response to so many human rights violations & conflicts, are now being violated openly” @SelmaHaddadi, Dep Chairperson @_AfricanUnion commission

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📺Watch the Full Video on YouTube
🔗https://t.co/NJYVyCdd54

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"We particularly appreciated that there was a specific roundtable dedicated to the shifts underway in the Sahel, aimed at promoting discussion among all stakeholders and partners interested in the dynamics of the Confederation of Sahel States (AES)." – @AbdoulayeDiop8, @MaliMaeci

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5 Months to Go to #AswanForumVI ! ⏳
The Sixth Edition of the Aswan Forum for Sustainable Peace and Development is in 5 months.

📅 21–22 November 2026
📍 Aswan, Egypt

#PeaceProgressProsperity #SustainableDevelopment #Africa

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"When we are talking about Africa development and peace, there is a need to put young people at the center." - Felipe Paullier, United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Youth Affairs. 

📺Watch the Full Video on YouTube
🔗https://t.co/PtcgbJACsK

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"Together we are stronger, and we feel that very closely in the Aswan Forum, where Africa comes together with Mediterranean, European and all those who really want to work on peace, security and development." - @aneichhorst, @EUinEgypt & LAS

📺Full video https://t.co/NgLaPGRbb1

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“Africa is developing & growing in numbers but also in its investments & development. The opportunities are in this continent & we believe that this continent have the chance to shape the world politics & dynamics”- @OthmanBelbeisi, Regional Dir@IOM_MENA 🔗https://t.co/OB8theBjio