PSC/PR/BR(DCCXI) Page 2 Council underlined the need for Member States to criminalize acts of recruitment and incitement to commit terrorist acts, in line with UN Security Council resolutions 1624 (2005) and 2178 (2014). Furthermore, Council highlighted the urgent need for Member States to put in place the required due legal processes and programs to handle disengaged and returning terrorist fighters through the criminal justice system and other appropriate de-radicalization and reintegration programs to prevent relapse into terrorism. Council called for enhanced efforts on cross-border cooperation among neighboring Member States to strengthen mechanisms for the effective sharing of information and intelligence, including within the Nouakchott and Djibouti processes, the different regional fusion centres, and AFRIPOL whose roles have become critical in the fight against terrorism and violent extremism. Council also called on the Commission, including the ACSRT and CISSA to continue to provide support and to facilitate the development of technical and operational capacities of Member States for effective prevention and combating of terrorism and violent extremism. Council reiterated its call to Member states to enhance their capacities in combating terrorism and violent extremism using the existing tools of the AU and international organizations and emphasized the need to take appropriate measures to control and monitor the use of internet, particularly the use of social media, as a platform commonly used for radicalization. Furthermore, Council stressed the importance of engaging a broad range of actors in the fight against terrorism, violent extremism and radicalization, such as religious and traditional leaders, school authorities, civil society groups, the media and internet service providers, as well as youths and women. Council expressed its deep concern over arms and light weapons, as well as expansive continent, which fuel terrorism. In this regard, continue to provide a detailed reports on the terrorists in Africa. continued entry into Africa of illegal small illicit circulation of such arms within the Council reiterated its request to CISSA to nature and sources of weapons used by Council appealed to the United Nations and the international community at large, to continue to provide financial and other necessary support to the AU’s efforts in the fight against terrorism and violent extremism in Africa. Council called on all Member States to continue implementing the provisions of the 455th PSC communique, as well as other relevant AU and international instruments. Council further reiterated its call to Member States, which have not yet done so, to urgently take the necessary steps to become party to the 1999 OAU Convention on the Prevention and Combating of Terrorism and its 2004 Supplementary Protocol, the 2015 Niamey Convention on Cross Border Cooperation and to the relevant international instruments adopted under the auspices of the United Nations. Council agreed to remain seized of the matter.