Mr. Nabil Ben Khatra, Executive Secretary of the OSS paid a working visit to Uganda and Ethiopia from 15 to 19 March 2021.
During the different meetings, Mr. Executive Secretary had the opportunity to present the Organization, its 2030 strategy and its achievements but also to express the needs and expectations and to exchange on the collaboration perspectives.
Kigali, 19 November 2019: A team of experts from the GMES and Africa programme of the African Union Commission are among hundreds of delegates attending the Africa-GIS 2019 Conference in the Rwandan capital, Kigali. The biennial conference is a flagship and marketplace of Geospatial information in Africa organized to contribute to the development of skills and institutional capacity across the continent.
The Sahara and Sahel Observatory received in Tunis, a mission of the coordination unit of the GMES & Africa program of the African Union, led by Dr. Tidiane Ouattara, coordinator of the GMES&Africa program and composed of Dr. Bachir Saley, Director in charge of water and natural resources and Ing. Hamdi Kacem, Technical Assistant of the program.
Among the highlights of this mission were visits to direct beneficiaries and end-users of GMES services developed by the OSS, leader of the North Africa Consortium.