Gulf of Guinea : Ghana Mobilises For Maritime Security Reporting

Journalists and security practitioners from many countries of the shores of the Gulf of Guinea converged on Ghana’s capital, Accra, last week to lay ground work for a full-scale training package meant to elevate media and security practitioners on communicating facts about the Gulf of Guinea (GoG). Through the initiative of the Kofi Annan International Peace Training Centre (KAIPTC) within their current five-year Danish Government support project, the Accra gathering of lecturers and practitioners of journalism as well as experts of maritime sciences met 27 through 28 February, 2023 to draw a far-reaching database to enrich reporting and surveillance around the GoG. The West and Central African gulf as an enormous natural resource endowment expectedly attracts crimes, conflicts and interests.
Styled as “Maritime Security Reporting, Learning, Development and Design Workshop”, participants at the KAIPTC confab in Accra pooled their experiences and theoretical reservoirs to design and develop a comprehensive course package for Journalists, media liaisons and maritime security practitioners. The targeted user-sectors would understand, collaborate and report accurately on maritime issues of the Gulf of Guinea and support efforts to reduce criminality in the area, Major General Richard Ado-Gyane, current KAIPTC Commandant, underscored while opening the workshop in Accra. Professor Kwesi Aning, Director/FAAR, meeting made the opening remarks situating the importance of the come-together.
The ingredients conceived at the Accra meeting as maritime reporting tool flowed on thanks to the inc...