The Afro-Arab Cultural Institute (AACI) and the Afro-Arab Youth Council (AAYC) have reached a memorandum of cooperation on 17 April 2016 in Khartoum on the sideline of the international conference on the theme: “the contribution of Africans to the advancement of Arab and Islamic civilisation”. The agreement was signed by Dr. Mohamed Salem SOUFI, the Director General of the Institute and Mr. Awad Hassan Ibrahim, the Secretary General of the Council.