Maputo, Mozambique – April 2024 – The Continental African Conference of Salesian Institutions of Higher Education (IUS) was held at the Don Bosco Higher Institute in Maputo from 9 to 12 April. The objective, after a special period of accompaniment by the General Coordinator of the IUS, Fr Oscar Lozano, is to establish a common continental program in the light of the documents of the 8th World Assembly. Taking part in the meeting were Fr Giuseppe Meloni, from the Don Bosco  Higher Institute in Maputo, Mozambique; Fr Dieudonné Besa, from IUS in Lubumbashi, Congo; Fr Didier Eklou, from the Don Bosco Higher Institute in Lomé, Togo and Fr Luvundo Capalo, Delegate of the Don Bosco Higher Institute in Luanda, Angola. The work began with a greeting from Fr Adolfo Sarmento, Superior of the Salesian Vice-Province of Mozambique (MOZ) and with the conference "Perspective on Higher Education in Africa" by Dr. Prof. Cipriano Parafino Gonçalves. The work of the Conference, led by the General Coordinator of the IUS, has achieved its purpose of structuring the Joint Programme 3 of IUS-Africa that spells out the aims for the following years: IUS policy making, teacher and administrative training, network consolidation, research sharing, best practices and other initiatives of common interest. The conference had its conclusion with the election of the continental coordinator in the person of Fr Diuedonné Besa, of IUS Congo.