Gulf of Guinea!: Security Code of Conduct Evaluated

Experts are meeting in Yaounde to chart the ways of concretely implementing the Code.

Collective measures to guarantee more safety and security in the Gulf of Guinea will soon gain greater efficiency when the Code of Conduct concerning the repression of piracy, armed robbery against ships and illicit maritime activity in West and Central Africa must have gone operational. The Code of Conduct was adopted in Yaounde on June 25, 2013 as one of the major outcomes of the Heads of State Conference on Maritime Safety and Security in the Gulf of Guinea.
The Interregional Coordination Centre (ICC) in charge of overseeing the implementation of the Code of Conduct and other security issues in the Gulf of Guinea has embarked on translating the Code of Conduct into concrete reality on the field by organising the first technical evaluation meeting in Yaounde that started yesterday, August 16 to end today, August 17, 2017. The meeting concerns experts from West and Central African countries that are signatories of the Yaounde Code of Conduct and partners. The countries are member States of the Economic Community of Central Africa States (ECCAS), Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the Gulf of Guinea Commission (GGC).
The Executive Director of the Interregional Coordination Centre, Trimua Christian said the Yaounde meeting was in fulfilment of Article 17   of the Code that empowers the IC...