Prof. Mahmoud El-Meteini, President of Ain Shams University, and Prof. Ayman Salih, Vice President for Postgraduate Studies and Research Affairs, received, on Tuesday, March 7, in the building of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center at the university, the Ambassador of Zambia in Cairo, the Ambassador of the Republic of Malawi, Ambassador Ayman Kamel, Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs and Ambassador Former Egypt in Japan, representative of the Japanese Embassy, representative of the Japanese Hiroshima University, Dr. Dina Karam, representative of the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA), accompanied by a delegation of professors and students from the Japanese Hiroshima University, the University of Zambia and the University of Malawi, in the presence of Prof. Shahira Samir, Executive Director for the International Relations and Academic Cooperation Sector at Ain Shams University, and Prof. Sherweit Al-Ahmadi, Director of the Expatriate Department at Ain Shams University, and Ms. Okumura Hatsuko, Representative of the Hiroshima University Office in Cairo.

The meeting comes within the activities of the cooperation triangle that brings together the Japanese Hiroshima University and Egyptian universities represented by Ain Shams University, Cairo, Aswan and Beni Suef, and African universities represented by the University of Zambia and the University of Malawi.

During the meeting, they discussed how to develop joint cooperation and open new areas of cooperation between Ain Shams University and all partners, as well as encouraging student exchange between the participating universities and Ain Shams University.

On the sidelines of the meeting, Prof. Ahmed Jalal, Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture, gave a lecture to the delegation, which included a group of students and faculty members from Hiroshima University and the Universities of Zambia and Malawi, during which he talked about global food security, explaining the percentages and statistics that indicate that there are approximately 1.2 billion Citizens all over the world suffer from malnutrition, and there are about 800 million citizens living below the line of hunger and poverty, and this leads to instability in those countries and is reflected in the entire world, in light of the fact that the world has become a small village that affects and is affected by each other.

Prof. Ahmed Galal also explained ways to achieve food security through 4 pillars: achieving abundance, secondly, easy access to it, thirdly, achieving benefit in order to reach sustainability, and how to cooperate and cooperate among all countries to achieve food security, regardless of color, religion, race, and nationality.

It is noteworthy that the delegation's visit to Ain Shams University comes within the framework of his visit to Egypt, which lasted for 4 days, during which he visited a group of tourist attractions in Cairo and Alexandria, and the Japanese University in Burj Al Arab. Ain Shams University is the only government university that he visited during his stay in Egypt.