A total of 22 countries from the Eastern, Southern and Northern Africa are signatory to a shared commitment to cooperate under the framework of the Maritime Organization for Eastern, Southern and Northern Africa (MOESNA).
This growing alignment reflects a clear recognition that Africa’s interconnected subregions—linked through the Western Indian Ocean, the South Atlantic, and the Red Sea—face complex and multifaceted maritime challenges that require coordinated and coherent regional responses. The MOESNA Collaboration Framework therefore arises from both necessity and political will: the urgent need to address longstanding gaps in maritime development, and the shared resolve of Member States to pursue collective, forward-looking solutions.
Under this framework, Member States have committed to strengthening cooperation through knowledge sharing, pooling of expertise and resources, and leveraging their respective comparative advantages in pursuit of a unified maritime agenda.
Through this collaboration, Member States are deepening strategic partnerships to enhance maritime governance, improve shipping and trade facilitation, build institutional and technical capacity, and unlock the vast economic potential of the region’s maritime domain.
