 Asulema, my name is Khulud Bahouri from Tunisia. I'm the African Union Youth Ambassador for Peace, representing North Africa. My name is Christian Achalike. I'm from the Republic of Cameroon. I serve as the African Union Youth Ambassador for Peace for Central Africa. My name is Dana Pochando. I'm from Tanzania. I'm the African Union Youth Ambassador for Peace. I represent the Eastern African region. Thank you very much for having me. My name is Cynthia Chigweña. I am the African Youth Ambassador for Peace for Southern Africa. I am Mohamed Kunta, the African Union African Youth Ambassador for Peace for the region of West Africa. We are here to raise our voices, show the importance of young people in peace-building activities or processes in Africa. Well, one of the greatest challenges we face in terms of bioenxtremism in Cameroon, unfortunately, we are faced by this from two fronts. The one from Boko Haram Insurgency. I'm most recently within the English-speaking regions of my country where we have seen how young people have been trapped by governance issues and then pushes them to join these groups. We have youth that have participated in various conflicts or extremist groups, but we also have young people that are working to counter that narrative and participating in peace-building and conflict resolution and mitigating the impacts of the very conflicts that we've had in the region. The biggest challenge in the Eastern African region is unemployment. A lot of young people want to be hard, want to be at the front line, but they feel like they're not included in order in space. Despite the advancement that we have seen in Tunisia, we still have some challenges and that represents the access to quality education, healthcare systems, the differences in salaries between men and women that we still witness today. The concept of youth peace and security is very new in many places in West Africa. We have very few institutions, either led by young people or not, that are dealing with youth peace and security in Africa. So it means that there is a lot of work that needs to be done. I hope that the U.S.-African leadership is something to lead to more opportunity of partnership and collaboration with Africa and more training opportunity for young peace-builders in Africa, especially peace-builders at community level, grass-root community level. I look forward for the interaction with the U.S. and the African summit because I believe through that it will also strengthen the partnership which will create more opportunities for young people in a capacity building, in a workshop, in training, in scholarships. Providing incentives to all governments within the region or in the continent to promote youth inclusive programs. I think that in terms of the role of the U.S. international community to respond on issues of this sort, I think starts when in terms of experience. I think one of the realities in Cameroon is that some of these challenges in terms of our extremism which we are facing are practically new. And of course the U.S. government has huge experience in terms of other parts of the world which would be a great opportunity for us to learn from. I would say that throughout these engagement opportunities the U.S. can give a lot of best practices and success stories to the region to amplify women advancement and to grant them the access that they need in the spaces where they can have effective participation. It's very, very important to acknowledge today the Tunisian female leadership capacity and to invest in it and to say that we have a lot of female potential leaders and it's about time that we give them the representation that they need. Continuously we are seeing how entrepreneurship is becoming the other of the day in Cameroon. Young people are taking initiatives and are supporting processes to be able to support their peers. You cannot be talking about young people if they are not in the room. I mean there is nothing as important of having young people promoting the agenda of youth peace and security for themselves. We are looking at the social media context and the usage of various media platforms the ability to use our varied media platforms without being harmful and hurtful towards others. For me as the youth ambassador for peace peace is not only the absence of war but it's in the absence of unemployment, climate change, effect, migration, gender mainstreaming issues and everything that challenges the young people. That's how I define peace.