The 47th Ministerial Meeting of the United Nations Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions in Central Africa (UNSAC) took place from 3 December 2018 to 7 December 2018. The meeting represented an opportunity to address issues on cross-border controls, maritime piracy, the activity of terrorist groups in the subregion, mercenarism and transnational organised crime and SALW controls. On the same occasion the General Secretariat of ECCAS presented a draft community regulation addressing security threats connected to pastoralism and transhumance. Moreover, in the margins of the meeting ECCAS, UNREC and UNOCA signed a memorandum of understanding to rationalise their interventions on SALW control activities.