United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Africa

Mandate and functions

UNREC's mandate, as defined in the founding resolution, is to provide, on request, substantive support to African member states for initiatives aimed at achieving peace, arms control and disarmament in the region.

Its principal functions include:

• Supporting dialogue and confidence-building among states in the region.
• Providing capacity-building, legal and technical assistance to states in the region.
• Cooperating with regional and sub-regional organizations (for example the African Union) and coordinating regional activities to promote arms control and disarmament.

Regional coverage

The centre supports 55 member states in the African region.

Member states include:

• Algeria
• Angola
• Benin
• Botswana
• Burkina Faso
• Burundi
• Cabo Verde
• Cameroon
• Central African Republic
• Chad
• Comoros
• Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Republic of the Congo
• Côte d'Ivoire
• Djibouti
• Egypt
• Equatorial Guinea
• Eritrea
• Ethiopia
• Gabon
• The Gambia
• Ghana
• Guinea
• Guinea-Bissau
• Kenya
• Lesotho
• Liberia
• Libya
• Madagascar
• Malawi
• Mali
• Mauritania
• Mauritius
• Morocco
• Mozambique
• Namibia
• Niger
• Nigeria
• Rwanda
• São Tomé and Príncipe
• Senegal
• Seychelles
• Sierra Leone
• Somalia
• South Africa
• South Sudan
• Sudan
• Swaziland
• Tanzania
• Togo
• Tunisia
• Uganda
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe