Without its own maritime doctrine, Africa risks gradually losing sovereignty over its seas ...

But Africa is lagging in the global endeavour to safeguard ... In prep/Global Ocean Commission/The High Seas and Us – Understanding the Value of High-Seas Ecosystems (click on the map for the full ...

Africa already shows innovation and leadership in ocean conservation, and countries must now push for early ratification. After nearly two decades of negotiations, consensus has finally been ...

Map: The Economist Saint Louis ... The problem is not only surging seas. It is also, simultaneously, sinking cities. In much of West Africa, subsidence—the lowering of the land surface itself ...

fish and other sea life. Participants in negotiations say this will positively affect struggling fishers in Africa and the Global South. Henry Wilkins reports from Port Sudan, Sudan.

In prep/Global Ocean Commission/The High Seas and Us – Understanding the Value of High-Seas Ecosystems (click on the map for the full size image ... increasingly seen in Southern Africa. The ...