On 24 Jun 2023, the Rwanda Defence Force(RDF) Chief of Defence Staff, Lieutenant General Mubarakh Muganga, along with Police and RDF officials attended ECCAS Defence and Police chiefs meeting in Libreville, Gabon.
Rwanda is member of the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) made up of eleven Member States: Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Congo, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe and Chad.
It is one of the eight Regional Economic Communities (RECs) recognized as pillars of regional integration in Africa and therefore fully engaged in multiple dynamics related to the construction of the African Economic Community provided for by the Treaty of Abuja. (End)