African Union

Ngalim Eugene

Ngalim Eugene heads ECOSOCC Peace and Security Cluster
Our own Ngalim Eugene Nyuydine is the new head of the Peace and Security Cluster of the Economic, Social and Cultural Council ECOSOCC of the African Union AU.
    Ngalim was elected during an Extra-ordinary session of the AU-ECOSOCC held in Cairo, Egypt from 26 February to 2 March 2015. The session was aimed to orientate the newly elected members of the 2nd General Assembly of the AU Organ.
    After three rounds of voting for the Peace and Security Sectorial Cluster, Ngalim Eugene was elected to head the Cluster. He defeated his challengers by a wide margin, securing 32 votes, as against 12 votes for the 1st runner-up from Sudan, and 5 votes for the 2nd runner up from Uganda.
    Among the 10 sectorial clusters of AU-ECOSOCC, the Peace and Security cluster is the biggest and the most important. This explains why the election to designate its head is always hotly contested. 

    Following his brilliant election, Mr. Ngalim Eugene will now work in close collaboration with the AU Commissioner, the Department of Peace and Security and the Regional Economic Commissions (RECs). More so, he will have the ardous task to mobilize and bring the civil society on board on issues of peace and security.
    It should be recalled that Ngalim Eugene and another Cameroonian, Alain Blaise Batongue, Permanent Secretary of GICAM, were elected to the AU-ECOSOCC General Assembly, during an Ordinary General Assembly of the Council in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia recently.
    Ngalim Eugene is Founder/Executive Director of the Cameroon Youth Forum for Peace-CAMYOSFOP. He also founder/chairman of the African Youth Forum for Peace-AYFP; SG of the Central Africa Action Network on Small Arms-RASALAC and member of the National Commission on Human Rights and Freedoms in Cameroon-NCHRF among other active roles he plays in the civil society in Cameroon, Africa and the World.
    Before Ngalim and Batongue, another illustrious Cameroonian, Barrister Akere Muna was member and former president of the AU-ECOSOCC General Assembly. Akere entered the AU council under the banner of the African Lawyers Association where he still serves as the president.