APA President, Kenya Pays Courtesy Call to APA Vice President for North Africa, Egypt
The Director of Public Prosecutions, Mr. Renson M. Ingonga, CBS, OGW, President of the Africa Prosecutors Association, on Tuesday, 19th May 2026, paid a courtesy call to Egypt’s Prosecutor General, Hon. Mohamed Shawky, who also serves as APA Vice President for Northern Africa.
The engagement provided an important platform to strengthen prosecutorial cooperation between the Republic of Kenya and the Arab Republic of Egypt, particularly in criminal law, mutual legal assistance, extradition, international cooperation and the prosecution of complex and transnational crimes. The two leaders explored opportunities for a structured bilateral relationship between the ODPP Kenya and Egypt’s Office of the Prosecutor General, including the exchange of best practices on prosecutorial independence, institutional reforms, case management, policy development and enhanced communication channels between the two institutions.
Discussions also focused on possible prosecutorial exchange programmes, including short-term attachments, study visits, peer-to-peer learning, exchange of prosecution guidelines and joint learning sessions on comparative prosecution approaches. Further, Egypt’s Global Prosecutors’ Training Academy was identified as a strategic platform for specialised capacity building in cybercrime, digital evidence, financial crimes, counter-terrorism, trafficking in persons, environmental and wildlife crimes, and the use of technology and artificial intelligence in prosecution services.
Within the APA framework, Kenya and Egypt reaffirmed their shared commitment to supporting APA-led training, technical engagements, knowledge products and Africa-led prosecutorial responses to emerging crime trends.
