Jeddah, October 17, 2022, SPA -- The Secretariat General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) held a Consultative Meeting with the African Group Member States in the OIC, in Jeddah, on Monday, 17 October 2022. The Meeting deliberated on the implementation of various OIC projects and resolutions aimed at promoting economic cooperation among OIC Member States in the African continent. At the beginning of the meeting, the OIC Secretary General, Hissein Brahim Taha said that the idea of convening this meeting is borne out of the urgent need to accelerate the pace and scale of OIC collective action towards addressing developmental challenges in the OIC African countries. The OIC Secretary General enumerated the issues listed on the meeting’s agenda, assuring that the meeting would enable the Member States draw joint courses of action to address the developmental challenges in OIC countries in addition to defining ways and means of translating OIC economic cooperation frameworks into concrete actions at the country level. --SPA 17:25 LOCAL TIME 14:25 GMT 0015 www.spa.gov.sa/w1799309