Africa & Middle East Region

Ahmad Abba

EVP Africa & Middle East

Allan Manema

Regional Vice-President Southern Subregion

Allan Manema

Allan Tatenda Manema is a Senior Air Traffic Controller based in Harare, Zimbabwe. He obtained his first ATC rating in 2008, and currently holds 3 ratings. Allan is a certified Quality Management Systems (QMS) lead auditor, and has certifications in QMS Development and Implementation as well as Safety Management Systems Implementation. He is also a qualified OJTI and has worked on OJT work plans for unit training during his career. He also attended IFATCA training in Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM).

Allan has been actively involved in the Executive Board for the Zimbabwean MA (ATCAZ) since 2012 with portfolios such as Committee Member, VP Communications, PLC Chair, and EVP, a position he currently holds. As PLC Chair, Allan led the process of ATCAZ’s constitutional amendments, as well as crafting a Code of Ethics for the association. He has worked on several working papers for the association and contributed immensely towards the MA’s working papers presented at IFATCA Regional meetings and Annual Conferences. He was one of the panelists in a panel discussion on Artificial Intelligence in ATM at the 35th IFATCA AFM Regional Meeting in Cairo, 2024. He was appointed the RVP for Southern Africa in Cairo, 2024.

Allan holds a BSc Honours Degree in Computer Science, is passionate about Safety Management in Aviation, and has a keen interest in the emergence of Artificial Intelligence in ATM.

Zambia
Zimbabwe
South Africa
Madagascar
Malawi
Angola

Botswana
Gabon
Mozambique
Comoros
Eswatini
DRC
Namibia

TonNy Kepler

Regional Vice-President Eastern Subregion

Tonny Kepler

Tonny Kepler Ssenkubuge is a Senior Air Traffic Controller based at Entebbe International Airport. He began his career in ATC in 2010 and has since obtained four ATC ratings. He has also obtained training in Search and Rescue, Safety Management Systems, CBTA, and ELP train the trainer IFATCA course.

Tonny has been involved in the activities of his local Professional Association, the Uganda Air Traffic Controllers’ Association (UGATCA) as Executive Vice President Professional (EVPP) and later as President from 2019 to 2024 where he pioneered a number of initiatives to strengthen the Association.

Tonny began his involvement in IFATCA work as a corresponding member of the PLC in 2016. He became an elected member of the IFATCA CAC in 2019 to date and has participated in the development of a number of papers produced by CAC at the annual conference. He was also part of the IFATCA Equity, Diversity and Inclusion task force (EDITF) constituted in 2019, and part of the regional support group of the AFM region from 2019 until he was appointed RVP for the Eastern Africa region in 2023.

Tonny holds a Bachelor Degree in Mathematics and Physics Education, and is currently pursuing a Master of Business Administration in Aviation. Tonny is married and blessed with three children.

Kenya
Somalia
Tanzania
Ethiopia
Uganda

Burundi
Central African Republic
Seychelles
Djibouti

Francis Armah-Mensah

Regional Vice-President Western Subregion

Benin
Burkina Faso
Cabo Verde
Cameroon
Cote d’Ivoire
The Gambia
Ghana
Guinea

Guinea-Bissau
Liberia
Nigeria
Senegal
Sierra Leone
Togo
ROBATCA

Nabil Touazi

Regional Vice-President Northern Africa and the Middle East

Nabil Touazi

Nabil TOUAZI began his career in air traffic control, joining the Air Traffic Controller training program in Algeria in 2001. He had obtained his license at Algiers International Airport, in Aerodrome Control and Approach Control, both procedural and radar.
Nabil also holds a Master’s degree in Civil Engineering from the École Nationale des Travaux Publics d’Alger.

Throughout his career, Nabil has been actively involved in various projects, including procedures design, continuous improvement processes development, the amendment of training manuals, AIP apdate etc.
After a while he became an Instructor and later a Watch Manager at Algiers international airport ,tower and Approach control unit, a position he continues to hold.

Nabil was an active member of the Africa and Middle East Technical and Professional Committee, where he played a significant part in developing several working papers addressing critical issues in the AFM region.

Nabil is also a CBTA workshop instructor assistant since the 2019 AFM regional meeting in TUNIS.

Nabil TOUAZI was appointed as Regional Vice President for North Africa and Middle East at the 34th Africa and Middle East Regional Meeting in Abuja, Nigeria, in 2023.

Mauritania
Morocco
Algeria
Tunisia
Mali
Niger
Sudan

Egypt
Yemen
Lebanon
United Arab Emirates (UAE)
Libya