EU Maritime Security Factsheet: The Gulf of Guinea
1. EU Maritime Security Policy
1.1. The EU Maritime Security Strategy and the Gulf of Guinea
The EU Maritime Security Strategy Action Plan features a section with a regional focus, with a set of actions dedicated to the Gulf of Guinea.
It includes a call on the EU to continue supporting the implementation of the Gulf of Guinea Strategy and Action Plan, as well as national and regional efforts in the framework of the Yaoundé architecture (see Map).
1.2. The EU Strategy for the Gulf of Guinea
In 2014, the EU adopted an EU Strategy for the Gulf of Guinea to lend support to the objectives of the Yaoundé Architecture - the intra-regional commitment between the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) as well as the Gulf of Guinea Commission (GGC) signed at the Yaoundé Heads of State Summit in June 2013 to tackle maritime crime in its widest sense.
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The Nigeria Export Processing Zones Authority (NEPZA) and the Cross Rivers government have agreed to take steps to immediately commence the revamping of the Calabar free trade zone.
The two authorities agreed on the measures to restore the status of the zone, when Prof. Adesoji Adesugba, the Managing Director of the Authority, paid the Cross Rivers State Governor, Prof. Ben Ayade, a courtesy visit on Thursday in Calabar.
Adesugba had embarked on a three-day working visit to Calabar to ascertain the state of the zone.
The managing director said there was an urgent need to restore the status of the zone in line with the initial thoughts of the Federal Government for it to be a special business enclave to spark up economic growth and industrialisation of both the southern region and the country as a whole.
2021-01-19 05:35:28 GMT2021-01-19 13:35:28(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
LUANDA, Jan. 19 (Xinhua) Angola thinks the fight against maritime piracy and terrorism necessarily involves the creation of a strategy for government funding in the Gulf of Guinea and the Great Lakes region, the country s Secretary of State for the External Relations Esmeralda Mendonca said on Monday.
The Angolan official made the remark on the sidelines of the presentation ceremony of the recently appointed Gulf of Guinea Commission Deputy Executive Secretary Afonso Eduardo, an Angolan.
Mendonca stressed that if the member states of the region have concerted actions to tackle maritime piracy, they will contribute to the security and development of the region.
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