Thinking began to establish a continental union of African contractors

In 2003, the Egyptian Federation of Construction and Building Contractors invited the International Contracting Confederation (CICA) to convene in Cairo under the auspices of the Egyptian Federation.
Where the Egyptian Federation of Construction and Building Contractors is a member of the Sika Confederation through its membership in the Federation of Arab Contractors (FAC)
Then the urgent need for the existence of a continental entity that expresses business organizations in the African continent emerged
The Egyptian Federation took it upon itself to invite contracting organizations in the countries of the African continent to hold a founding conference to establish a continental union that would be representative of African companies.
Engineer / Ahmed El-Sayed formed a committee to undertake the work of calling and preparing for the conference in 2005
The committee was composed of Messrs
Founding Engineer/ Hassan Abdulaziz Hassan
Ambassador/ Ibrahim Abdullatif Al-Shwaimi
Eng. Darwish Ahmed Hassanein
Dr. Ali Amin Dergham
Eng. Muhammad Abdulaziz Al-Hayatami
Engineer/ Mohamed Awad Al-Toukhi
Engineer/ Mohamed Yousry Hussein
Mr. George Zarif Musa

Statement of the countries that agreed to participate in the founding conference of the African Union of Contractors’ Organizations
1) Tanzania (Dar es Salaam)
2) Senegal (Dakar)
3) Chad (N’Djamena)
4) Zimbabwe (Harare)
5) Mali (Bamako)
6) Ghana (Accra)
7) Angola (Luanda)
8) Togo (Lom)
9) Uganda (Kampala)
10) Congo (Brazzaville)
11) Kenya (Nairobi)
12) Malawi (Lilongwe)
13) Central Africa (Bangui)
14) Sudan (Khartoum)
15) Namibia (Windhoek)
16) Gabon (Libreville)
17) Zambia (Lusaka)
18) Ethiopia (Addis Ababa)
19) Benin (Cotonou)
20) Burundi (Bujumbura)
21) Morocco (Rabat)
22) Nigeria (Abuja)
23) Niger (Niamey)
24) Djibouti (Djibouti)
25) Mauritius (Port Louis)
26) South Africa (Pretoria)
27) Rwanda (Kigali)
28) Burkina Faso (Ouagadougou)
29) Eritrea (Asmara)
30) Algeria (Algeria)
31 Tunisia (Younes)

The Constitutive Conference of the African Union of Construction Contractors’ Organizations
Cairo – 7-8 March 2006
The Egyptian Federation of Construction and Building Contractors invited organizations, federations and associations of contractors in the African continent to participate in a conference to be held in Cairo on March 7-8, 2006, where the conferees from twenty-five countries discussed their ideas and vision, approved the establishment of the African Confederation of Contractors of Construction Organizations, and chose Cairo as the headquarters of the Federation .
The Egyptian Federation of Contractors undertakes to achieve the objectives of the conference
Mr. Eng. Ahmed El-Sayed formed a committee headed by Mr. Eng. Hassan Abdulaziz Hassan, (the Secretary General of the African Union at that time).
It undertakes all necessary actions to implement the objectives stipulated in the memorandum of call for the establishment of the African Union, as well as the implementation of the decisions and recommendations of the General Assembly and the Executive Office of the Union.
Resolutions of the Constitutive Conference of the African Union of Construction Contractors’ Organizations
The founding members of the African Union of Construction Contractors Organizations meeting in Cairo from 7 to 8 March 2006 unanimously approved the following resolutions:
First: Announcing the establishment of the Federation as an independent legal personality
Second: Approval in principle on the statute signed between the founding members to work on it until the date of the next session of the next general assembly.
Third: Choosing Cairo, the capital of the Arab Republic of Egypt, as the official seat of the Union
Fourth: Eng. Ahmed Mohamed, president of the Egyptian Federation of Construction and Building Contractors, was elected unanimously as the president of the federation for the first round.
Fifth: To elect the members of the Executive Office and the Vice-Presidents of the Federation, including the President of the Federation, in the light of what is stated in Article 10 of the statute as follows:
1- Mr . Baadelhaq Al-Areshi / Morocco
Vice President and Member of the Executive Office
2- Mr. Abdel Rahman Brecht – Djibouti
Vice President and Member of the Executive Office
3- Mr. Shane Moffat – South Africa
Vice President and Member of the Executive Office
4- Mr. Ismaila Diallo – Mali
Vice President and Member of the Executive Office
5- Mr. Ahmed Diamato – Chad
Vice President and Member of the Executive Office
6- Mr. Youssef Ahmed Youssef – Sudan
Vice President and Member of the Executive Office
7- Mr. Jayant Bunrama – Kenya
Member of the Executive Office
8- Mr. Bento Gilberto – Angola
Member of the Executive Office
9- Mr. Babacar Diop – Senegal
Member of the Executive Office
19- Mr. Dangbe Barambi – Central Africa
Member of the Executive Office