Mock drills in Ghana's Volta river were carried out during the first ever maritime exercises organized by the U.S. military under its long-running Flintlock program to bolster the skills of West African forces
Around 350 troops took part in the drills including servicemen from Ivory Coast, Ghana and Nigeria on the Gulf of Guinea. The area has become a global piracy hotspot in recent years although cases have fallen there since 2021, according to the U.N. Security Council.
Illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing has spread along West Africa's coasts, sapping an estimated $9.4 billion per year through illicit financial flows, according to a 2022 report by the Financial Transparency Coalition of non-governmental organisations. Of the top 10 companies they found involved in IUU fishing in the region, eight were Chinese and a third of all vessels sported Chinese flags, it said.
Commodore Godwin Livinus Bessing, commander of Ghana's Naval Training Command, said tackling IUU fishing had become a top priority, citing a lack of resources to deal with the foreign boats stealing from Ghana's waters. "They continue to flout our regulations because of our enforcement capabilities," he said. "That is one of the biggest problems. If we had enough ships out there and they knew we were monitoring the place, we would be able to curb the situation."
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