GABON: Maritime stakeholders gathered to discuss the development of a roadmap to establish clear guidelines for the sustainable governance of Gabon’s Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) last week in a consultative meeting hosted by AU-IBAR and the Regional Fisheries Committee for the Gulf of Guinea (COREP).

GHANA: A six-week training programme, which wrapped up at the start of November, saw 35 port managers receive certificates acknowledging their successful completion of a leadership training initiative aimed to empower managers and emerging leaders with essential skills.

SOUTH AFRICA: After revealing plans to take full control of Terminal de Carvão da Matola Limitada (TCM) during September, Grindrod Limited has been given the green light by the Competition Commission without conditions.

MADAGASCAR: Security personnel working at Madagascar’s major ports received training on how to identify potential security threats and take action to prevent risks to port facilities during a national workshop for port workers at the beginning of November.

SEYCHELLES: A training programme, jointly hosted by Nature Seychelles and WWF Madagascar, came to an end this week to provide science-based coral reef restoration training for four practitioners from Madagascar.

Four of the ten nominees for this year’s People’s Choice Award in the annual International Maritime Rescue Federation Awards (IMRF) represent African countries highlighting the impact that the continent has had in search and rescue over the past year.

THE GAMIBIA: The African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights’ (ACHPR) has issued a statement drawing attention to the latest death of almost 25 migrants including children following the sinking of their boat between the archipelago of the Comoros and the island of Mayotte.

SOUTH AFRICA: There was a rather dismal turnout from the maritime industry at this morning’s stakeholder engagement in Cape Town as the South African Maritime Authority (SAMSA) kicked off a series of three sessions aimed at discussing several new pieces of draft regulations.