Final month, Mombasa made historical past as the primary African metropolis to host the Our Ocean Convention (OOC) – a world convening to guard and preserve the ocean, gathering effectively over 100 nations. But the importance of the convention went far past the place it was held. It demonstrated why Africa is more and more…
Mombasa, Kenya — The blue economic system is an important supply of jobs, meals safety, and financial alternative throughout Africa and the Western Indian Ocean area. But, by the admission of these driving its growth, the area remains to be solely starting to faucet into what its oceans, lakes, and rivers can really provide. This…
Mombasa, Kenya — As temperatures climb, scientists warn the seas are approaching a dangerous tipping level. Warming oceans are altering marine ecosystems and elevating local weather dangers to communities throughout the globe, from dying coral reefs and lack of biodiversity to extra extreme floods and threats to meals safety. The oceans are warming quicker, already…
Rising up, all I ever needed was to work underwater as a marine conservationist. Nevertheless it wasn’t till my first job in Mombasa – ready below baobab timber for fishers to return so I may measure their catch – that I spotted the ocean is far more than what lies beneath the floor. Alongside Kenya’s…
Infographic/AEN By PATRICK MAYOYO The Meals and Agriculture Group of the United Nations (FAO) will launch its flagship report on The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture on 16 June through the Our Ocean Convention, hosted by the Authorities of Kenya in Mombasa. The official press convention on the SOFIA launch is scheduled to take place at 1pm EAT (10am GMT) on-line. Journalists…
Joint naval patrols are stretched skinny by the Center East disaster, however their means to eradicate piracy was at all times restricted. Piracy has re-emerged off Somalia’s coast. Quite a few dhows and bigger service provider vessels have been focused in April and Could, with some ships and their crews held for ransom. In response,…
Cunard’s iconic Queen Mary 2 will go to Durban and Cape City as a part of her 2026 World Voyage. The Queen Mary 2, the world’s solely energetic ocean liner, is ready to go to South African shores once more this April. As a part of her 110-night World Voyage, the flagship vessel will arrive…