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Pre-Tana 2024 Multi-Stakeholders Dialogue

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6:15 am March 2024
Add to Calendar 2024-03-27 06:15:00 2025-05-24 10:18:21 Pre-Tana 2024 Multi-Stakeholders Dialogue Description Location Policy Center Policy Center Africa/Casablanca public

Abdelhak Bassou, Senior Fellow at the Policy Center for the New South will be speaking virtually at the Pre-Tana Multi-Stakeholders Dialogue titled “Promoting Regional and International Efforts to Achieve Maritime Security in Africa: Addressing Piracy, Armed Robbery, Illicit Trafficking and Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing in the African Oceans”.

Prof. Bassou will contribute to the session “Understanding the Maritime Security in Africa and its Significance”, which aim to unpack and discuss:

- Maritime security in Africa and continental legal frameworks

- Role of African Union, RECs/RMs, and International Actors

- Benefits and Opportunities of Maritime Security

- Current challenges and emerging threats

This event is taking place on the 27th of March, 2024.

Speakers
Abdelhak Bassou
Senior Fellow
Abdelhak Bassou is a Senior Fellow at the Policy Center for the New South and a non-resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Africa Center. He is also an Affiliate Professor at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University. Bassou has had an extensive career in Moroccan National Security, where he served in various capacities including as head of the border division from 1978 to 1993. He was the former director of the Royal Institute of Police in 1998 and served as Head of Regional Security (Errachidia 1999-2003, Sidi Kacem 2003-2005) and as Central Director of General Intelligence from 2006 to 2009.   He holds a master's degree in political science and international studies from the Faculty of Law, Economics, and Social Sciences in Rabat. His academic research delves into ...