{"id":6908,"date":"2021-06-18T07:38:05","date_gmt":"2021-06-18T06:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maritimafrica.com\/en\/?p=6908"},"modified":"2021-06-18T07:38:08","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T06:38:08","slug":"iss-seminar-west-africa-strengthens-its-maritime-security-capabilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maritimafrica.com\/en\/iss-seminar-west-africa-strengthens-its-maritime-security-capabilities\/","title":{"rendered":"ISS Seminar : West Africa strengthens its maritime security capabilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"page-content\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/maritimafrica.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2021-06-29-iss-today-maritime-banner.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-6909 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/maritimafrica.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2021-06-29-iss-today-maritime-banner-1024x437.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"341\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maritimafrica.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2021-06-29-iss-today-maritime-banner-1024x437.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/maritimafrica.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2021-06-29-iss-today-maritime-banner-300x128.jpg 300w, https:\/\/maritimafrica.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2021-06-29-iss-today-maritime-banner-768x328.jpg 768w, https:\/\/maritimafrica.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2021-06-29-iss-today-maritime-banner.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Seafarers working on vessels throughout the Gulf of Guinea operate in arguably the most insecure maritime environment in the world. Effective law enforcement far out at sea has long been a challenge for most regional states. But changes are underway. A number of significant regional initiatives have been launched in 2021 to improve West African states&#8217; ability to combat piracy and other maritime security threats.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This seminar will discuss the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/issafrica.org\/iss-today\/gulf-of-guinea-piracy-a-symptom-not-a-cause-of-insecurity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">implications<\/a>\u00a0of changes to West Africa&#8217;s maritime security architecture and explore how these are assisting and amplifying regional capabilities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Chair:<\/strong>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Freedom C Onuoha<span style=\"color: #000000;\">, Coordinator, Security, Violence and Conflict Research Group, University of Nigeria<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Speakers:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Jakob Larsen, Head of Maritime Safety and Security<span style=\"color: #000000;\">,<\/span> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">BIMCO<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Commander Yussif Benning<span style=\"color: #000000;\">,<\/span> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">Director ECOWAS Multinational Maritime Coordination Centre Zone F (TBC)<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Pascaline Odoubourou, Founder and Editor-in-Chief <span style=\"color: #000000;\">at<\/span> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">MaritimAfrica<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"event-content-title\"><strong>Event details<\/strong><\/div>\n<ul class=\"event-content-list\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"event-list-text\">Date:\u00a0<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>29 Jun 2021<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"event-list-text\">Time:\u00a0<strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">16:00\u00a0to\u00a017:30<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0(GMT+2)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"event-list-text\">Venue:\u00a0Online <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">via <strong>Zoom<\/strong><\/span><strong>,<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/issafrica.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/tJYuf-itqD0jH9KUmrxwDC78EnlKzSl8ojWQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">registration<\/a>\u00a0required<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>To register :<strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">\u00a0<a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/issafrica.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/tJYuf-itqD0jH9KUmrxwDC78EnlKzSl8ojWQ\">https:\/\/issafrica.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/tJYuf-itqD0jH9KUmrxwDC78EnlKzSl8ojWQ<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"event-list-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/issafrica.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/tJYuf-itqD0jH9KUmrxwDC78EnlKzSl8ojWQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Attend event via webcast<\/a><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"event-enquiry\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This seminar is funded by the government of Norway. The ISS is also grateful for support from the members of the ISS Partnership Forum: the Hanns Seidel Foundation, the European Union, the Open Society Foundations and the governments of Canada, Denmark, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and the USA.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Enquiries<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Timothy Walker, Phone: +27 12 346 9500, Email:\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:twalker@issafrica.org\">twalker@issafrica.org<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"social-share-wide\">\n<div class=\"share-line\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"share-box\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seafarers working on vessels throughout the Gulf of Guinea operate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6909,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,1378,442,1300],"tags":[906,1975,1374,1596,1974,31,32,1950,1485,410,874,1299,1440],"class_list":["post-6908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog-en","category-maritime-security","category-news-en","category-webinar-en","tag-bimco","tag-commander-yussif-benning","tag-gulf-of-guinea-en","tag-iss","tag-jakob-larsen","tag-maritimafrica","tag-maritime","tag-maritime-environment","tag-maritime-in-africa","tag-maritime-security","tag-pascaline-odoubourou","tag-webinar-en","tag-west-africa"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>ISS Seminar : West Africa strengthens its maritime security capabilities - Maritimafrica<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Seafarers working on vessels throughout the Gulf of Guinea operate in arguably the most insecure maritime environment in the world. 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