Prior to the official opening session of the 3rd Türkiye-Africa Partnership Summit, which was held at Istanbul Congress Centre with the theme, "Enhanced Partnership for Common Development and Prosperity," the leaders gathered for a family photo.
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, President Félix-Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Chairperson Moussa Faki Mahamat of the African Union Commission, President Paul Kagame of Rwanda, President Macky Sall of Senegal, President Azali Assoumani of the Union of Comoros, Head of the Presidential Council of Libya Mohammad Younes Menfi, President lsmaïl Omar Guelleh of Djibouti, President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria, President Faustin Archange Touadéra of the Central African Republic, President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed Farmaajo of Somalia, President Julius Maada Wonie Bio of Sierra Leone, President Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani of Mauritania, President Umaro Sissoco Embaló of Guinea-Bissau, Vice President Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue of Equatorial Guinea in charge of National Defence and State Security, Vice President Isatou Touray of the Republic of the Gambia, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali of Ethiopia, Prime Minister Ouhoumoudou Mahamadou of Niger, Prime Minister Aïmene Benabderrahmane of Algeria, National Security Advisor to the President of South Sudan Tut Gatluak Manime, President Jean-Claude Kassi Brou of the Economic Community of West African States Commission, and Secretary General Wamkele K. Mene of the African Continental Free Trade Area, as well as ministers, special representatives and ambassadors from Uganda, Chad, Ghana, Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Congo, Ivory Coast, Gabon, Liberia, South Sudan, Tunisia, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Tanzania, Egypt, South Africa, Malawi, Kenya, Burkina Faso and Morocco posed for the family photo.