INTERPOL Secretary-General Valdecy Urquiza calls on the African Union Commission Chairperson

30 October 2026

INTERPOL Secretary-General Valdecy Urquiza paid a courtesy call on African Union Commission Chairperson Mahmoud Ali Youssouf. They exchanged views on strengthening cooperation under the Memorandum of Understanding between the African Union Commission and INTERPOL. The Chairperson thanked INTERPOL for its support to member states and to the African Union Mechanism for Police Cooperation, known as AFRIPOL, particularly in capacity-building and programme development. Both sides committed to deepening institutional cooperation and joint work to prevent and combat transnational organised crime in all its forms. INTERPOL is the international police organisation with its General Secretariat at Lyon in France and a National Central Bureau in each member country.