On 25 and 26 November, the Agency for the Safety of Air Navigation in Africa and in Madagascar (ASECNA) organised the third meeting of the ANSPs of the AFI Region in Cotonou, Benin. Following previous sessions in Dakar (2002) and Johannesburg (2004), this meeting aimed at revitalizing pooling strategies to achieve the vision of the ANSPs in the region of a single African sky. Among the topics discussed were economic and institutional aspects, emerging technologies in ATM and how to create an effective and seamless airspace. Among the speakers invited to this conference were Benoit Fonck, SJU Programme Execution & Risk Manager - Deputy Chief Programme and representatives of SESAR members Thales, Eurocontrol and Indra. Mr Fonck presented the SESAR Programme with the objective of sharing the SJU’s experience as technological and operational dimension of the Single European Sky initiative.