The exercise in the Gulf of Guinea from Senegal to Angola involves 19 local nations and ten international partners. The exercise began on 2 November and was completed on 7 November.
Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sao Tome and Príncipe, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo took part in the exercise in the Gulf of Guinea and the region. The United Kingdom, Italy, Brazil, the United States, Portugal, Denmark, Spain, Belgium and Morocco also sent their representatives and units.
Since the Yaoundé Summit in 2013, the French Navy has organised the regional naval exercise African Nemo (Navy's Exercise for Maritime Operations) three to four times a year and the large-scale exercise Grand African Nemo once a year. These recurring exercises take place alternately in different areas of the Gulf of Guinea, but always with the same objective: to strengthen the ability of the navies of the Gulf of Guinea to cooperate and act together in the context of state action at sea. Since 2018, Grand Nemo has been an important event in the fight against illegal fishing, piracy, marine pollution and trafficking.
The European Union had also declared the Gulf of Guinea to be an area of interest (see marineforum News from 25.01.2021)
See also:
marineforum Issue 11/20: Securing the Gulf of Guinea by Sidney Dean
marineforum issue 3/21: Robberies, kidnappings, thefts by Michael Stehr
marineforum issue 10/21: In the piracy hotspot by Michael Knudsen
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