Luanda – The Vice president of Namibia Nangolo Mbumba has been in Angola since Sunday to attend the Quadripartite Meeting of the Experts set for Tuesday in Luanda.
The event will gather experts from the East African Community (EAC), the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS), the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) and the Southern African Development Community (SADC).
The Namibian delegation to the meeting, taking place under the aegis of the African Union (AU), also comprises the Deputy Prime Minister for Foreign Affairs Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwa and the Minister of Defence and Veteran Issues Frans Kapofi.
Also in Luanda for the meeting, the Executive Secretary of SADC, Elias Magosi; the Executive Secretary of the ICGLR, João Manuel Caholo; the Special Representative of the UN Secretary General to the African Union, Parfait Onanga Anyanga, and António Guterres' Special Envoy for the Great Lakes, Huang Xia.
The list includes the president of ECCAS Commission Gilberto da Piedade Veríssimo, the Secretary General of EAC Peter Mutuku Mathuki, and the Deputy Prime Minister of Defence of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo, and the Deputy Prime Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Christophe Lutundula Apala Pen'Apala. FMA/VM/MRA/NIC
