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Illicit financial flows and IUU fishing in Africa : the case of Senegal

Published On October 21, 2024 Published By Aliou

On 18 October 2024, Captain Ibrahima SOW, Director of Information and Public Relations for the Armed Forces, issued a press release stating that “the President of the Republic will be visiting the senegalease’s deep-sea patrol vessel Cayor at the Amiral Faye Gassama naval base”. We...

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Deep Sea Mining: Artisanal Fishers from Africa and the Pacific call for precaution

Published On August 21, 2024 Published By Aliou

The Eleventh Conference of Parties (COP11) of the Nairobi Convention for the protection, management and development of the coastal and marine environment of the Western Indian Ocean is convening in Antananarivo, Madagascar from 20- 22 August 2024. NC COP 11 is being held against a backdrop of major ...

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Access agreements in Africa: Gaoussou Gueye calls for transparency and collaboration

Published On July 10, 2024 Published By Aliou

On Tuesday, July 9, an informal exchange of views on access agreements was held in the Malaysia Room of the FAO in Rome. This event, organized by Madagascar and Germany, highlighted the complex and crucial issues of access agreements in Africa, focusing on the expectations of African coastal states ...

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In African small-scale fisheries, when a woman falls ill, her whole community suffers

Published On March 7, 2024 Published By Aliou

The recent report on ‘Fisheries and the right to food in the context of climate change’ points out that women account for half of the workers in all fisheries and aquaculture value chains, where they perform crucial functions: ‘for every fisher, there are around four jobs in second...

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ALERT: Uncontrolled immigration of young African people to Europe and the need for initiatives to retain young people in Africa with decent jobs

Published On July 12, 2023 Published By Aliou

African Confederation of Professional Organizations of Artisanal Fisheries (CAOPA) would like to draw your attention to a worrying issue affecting young people in Africa: uncontrolled immigration to Europe. This phenomenon has tragic consequences, with many young people losing their lives in the Sah...

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Stockholm: African Artisanal Fisheries Calls for Better Transparency in EU Fishing Agreements

Published On May 25, 2023 Published By Aliou

The African Confederation of Professional Artisanal Fisheries Organizations (CAOPA) expressed its concerns at the General Assembly of the European Union’s (EU) Advisory Council on Long Distance Fishing (LDAC) held in Stockholm, Sweden, on May 25, 2023. CAOPA President Gaoussou Gueye highlighte...

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Small-scale fisheries in Africa: challenges, pains and hopes

Published On May 1, 2023 Published By Aliou

Small-scale fisheries in Africa play an important role in the economy and food and nutrition security. It provides an essential source of protein for local populations and represents a means of livelihood for many coastal communities. In Africa, small-scale fisheries employ more than 10 million peop...

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Financing the 30×30 agenda for the Oceans: Debt for Nature swaps should be rejected

Published On December 6, 2022 Published By Aliou

1. At the UN Biodiversity Conference, or COP-15, the post-2020 framework will likely endorse the target of declaring 30% of the world’s land and oceans as protected areas by 2030. We recognise that protected areas can be effective means to restore and conserve biodiversity ...

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CAOPA welcomes Guinea’s commitment to FiTI fisheries transparency standards

Published On December 1, 2022 Published By Aliou

PRESS RELEASE The Ministry of Fisheries and Maritime Economy of the Republic of Guinea, Charlotte DAFFE, sent a ‘commitment letter’ to the Fisheries Transparency Initiative (FiTI) on 28 November 2022, stating that: “to guarantee the sustainability of our maritime resources and to allow...

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CAOPA calls on the FAO to support sustainable artisanal aquaculture that complements artisanal fishing activities

Published On November 30, 2022 Published By Aliou

PRESS RELEASE Mbour, 30 November 2022 – The African Confederation of Artisanal Professional organisations (CAOPA) brings together professional organisations from 27 African countries. On the occasion of the International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture (IYAFA), CAOPA organised on 2...

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Illicit financial flows and IUU fishing in Africa : the case of Senegal

Deep Sea Mining: Artisanal Fishers from Africa and the Pacific call for precaution

Access agreements in Africa: Gaoussou Gueye calls for transparency and collaboration

In African small-scale fisheries, when a woman falls ill, her whole community suffers

ALERT: Uncontrolled immigration of young African people to Europe and the need for initiatives to retain young people in Africa with decent jobs

Stockholm: African Artisanal Fisheries Calls for Better Transparency in EU Fishing Agreements

Small-scale fisheries in Africa: challenges, pains and hopes

Financing the 30×30 agenda for the Oceans: Debt for Nature swaps should be rejected

CAOPA welcomes Guinea’s commitment to FiTI fisheries transparency standards

CAOPA calls on the FAO to support sustainable artisanal aquaculture that complements artisanal fishing activities