Archives des 10/10/2025 - Blue Africa Summit

Coffee break

5 October 2025 • 0 Comment

Group picture

2 October 2025 • 0 Comment

Women Actions for the Ocean

17 September 2025 • 0 Comment

Break

29 August 2025 • 0 Comment

Presentation of the Civil Society College’s work

29 August 2025 • 0 Comment

Restitutions des travaux du collège gouvernance & territoires

29 August 2025 • 0 Comment

Collèges d’experts gouvernance & territoires et collège société civile (Cliquez pour découvrir les intervenants)

29 August 2025 • 0 Comment

The roundtables are held in a hybrid format, allowing both in-person and online participation.

Parallel sessions work
Collèges d’experts gouvernance & territoires Azza Jiddou Ministry of Fisheries, Maritime and Port Infrastructure, Mauritania Edoh Komla President, Regional Maritime Council, Togo Alexis Aquereburu Mayor, Communes of the Lakes (Aného), Togo Marieme Bekaye Independent Expert in Environment and Sustainable Development and member of the Royal Moroccan Academy, Mauritania Robin Degron Director, Plan Bleu Alessandra Sensi Head, Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) Samuel Megwa Strategic Director, YARIS, EU Gulf of Guinea Interregional Network (EU-GoGIN) Willy Mbusisi Heukoua – Spécialiste en Environnement et sous-directeur des Études et de la Protection de l’Environnement, Communauté Urbaine de Douala, Cameroun Joseph Magloire Olinga Deputy Director, Department of Environment, Health and Living Environment, Urban Community of Douala, Cameroon Carole Martinez – Experte en politiques internationales, spécialiste de la biodiversité marine et insulaire, gestion du Fonds Vert & Bleu, MedPAN Walaa Gad El Karim Mahmoud Othman Director of the central unit of the decent life initiative Omar Mohamed – Mayor of Moroni, Comores Mamadou Sidibé * – Conseiller au Ministère de l’Environnement et de la Transition Écologique, Sénégal Jean-François Curtis * – Adjoint au Maire de Grand Bassam, Côte d’’Ivoire Jean Baptiste Harelimana * President, African Academy of International Law practice André-Julien Koutou * Director of the House of Entrepreneurship and Youth Integration, Projects, Mayor of Grand-Bassam, Côte d’Ivoire David Willima * Africa Regional Coordinator Deep Sea Conservation Coalition Coordinated by: Robin Degron – Directeur, Plan Bleu & Samuel Megwa Strategic Director, YARIS, EU Gulf of Guinea Interregional Network (EU-GoGIN)	College civil society Ayivi Ernest Tindo – Fondateur et président, Organisation Panafricaine de la Jeunesse pour l’Économie Bleue, Bénin Cécile Mawe Moumbre Founder, Youth in Action for Sustainable Development, Cameroon Laurent Ahongbonon President and scientific director, Nature Plurielle, Bénin Jade Velonjara Advocacy Officer, Natiora Defenders, Madagascar Caroline Mawandji Masala National President, Wimafrica DRC, Democratic Republic of the Congo Kaoutar Merbouh Secretary General, WIMA Morocco Louise Soppi Ndock Expert in Social and Solidarity Economy Eliott Barichasse Ndock Secretary-General, NGO Wandzani Wazi Mbwedza “Friends of the Octopus,” Comoros Aristide TAKOUKAM KAMLA * President Founder, AMMCO Maximin Djondo * Executive Director, Benin Environment and Education Society (BEES NGO) Mohamed KOÏTA * Climate Lead, RIM Youth Climate Movement – Mauritania Florentine Guihard-Koidio * – Présidente, Comité de Veille Stratégique, Réseau des Femmes Professionnelles Maritimes et Portuaires de l’Afrique de l’Ouest et du Centre, Côte d’Ivoire Lionel Ondoa * CEO and Founder, YLO Médias Group, Mboko Magazine Sylvie Laure SIBE * Continental President of WIMAFRICA Mariette Degan * Programme Officer, National Association of Women Processors and Fishmongers of Benin Jean-Paul Wong Mpondo * National Coordinator, Cameroonian Network for the Development of Island Communities and Indigenous Peoples (RECADELI) Dorine Nininahazwe * – Greenpeace Africa Mouchtadi Badi Bamdou * Marine and coastal environment officer, MOHELI NATIONAL PARK, Comores Coordinated by: Rym Benzina – Présidente de l’association La Saison Bleue & Asmaa Benslimane First Vice-President and Secretary General of WIMAFRICA

Parallel sessions work

Collèges d’experts gouvernance & territoires

Azza Jiddou Ministry of Fisheries, Maritime and Port Infrastructure, Mauritania
Edoh Komla President, Regional Maritime Council, Togo
Alexis Aquereburu Mayor, Communes of the Lakes (Aného), Togo
Marieme Bekaye Independent Expert in Environment and Sustainable Development and member of the Royal Moroccan Academy, Mauritania
Robin Degron Director, Plan Bleu
Alessandra Sensi Head, Union for the Mediterranean (UfM)
Samuel Megwa
Strategic Director, YARIS, EU Gulf of Guinea Interregional Network (EU-GoGIN)
Willy Mbusisi Heukoua
– Spécialiste en Environnement et sous-directeur des Études et de la Protection de l’Environnement, Communauté Urbaine de Douala, Cameroun
Joseph Magloire Olinga
Deputy Director, Department of Environment, Health and Living Environment, Urban Community of Douala, Cameroon
Carole Martinez
– Experte en politiques internationales, spécialiste de la biodiversité marine et insulaire, gestion du Fonds Vert & Bleu, MedPAN
Walaa Gad El Karim Mahmoud Othman
Director of the central unit of the decent life initiative
Omar Mohamed
– Mayor of Moroni, Comores
Mamadou Sidibé * – Conseiller au Ministère de l’Environnement et de la Transition Écologique, Sénégal
Jean-François Curtis * – Adjoint au Maire de Grand Bassam, Côte d’’Ivoire
Jean Baptiste Harelimana * President, African Academy of International Law practice
André-Julien Koutou *
Director of the House of Entrepreneurship and Youth Integration, Projects, Mayor of Grand-Bassam, Côte d’Ivoire
David Willima *
Africa Regional Coordinator Deep Sea Conservation Coalition

Coordinated by:

Robin Degron
– Directeur, Plan Bleu & Samuel Megwa Strategic Director, YARIS, EU Gulf of Guinea Interregional Network (EU-GoGIN)

College civil society

Ayivi Ernest Tindo – Fondateur et président, Organisation Panafricaine de la Jeunesse pour l’Économie Bleue, Bénin
Cécile Mawe Moumbre Founder, Youth in Action for Sustainable Development, Cameroon
Laurent Ahongbonon President and scientific director, Nature Plurielle, Bénin
Jade Velonjara Advocacy Officer, Natiora Defenders, Madagascar
Caroline Mawandji Masala National President, Wimafrica DRC, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Kaoutar Merbouh Secretary General, WIMA Morocco
Louise Soppi Ndock Expert in Social and Solidarity Economy
Eliott Barichasse
Ndock Secretary-General, NGO *Wandzani Wazi Mbwedza* “Friends of the Octopus,” Comoros
Aristide TAKOUKAM KAMLA * President Founder, AMMCO
Maximin Djondo *
Executive Director, Benin Environment and Education Society (BEES NGO)
Mohamed KOÏTA *
Climate Lead, RIM Youth Climate Movement – Mauritania
Florentine Guihard-Koidio * – Présidente, Comité de Veille Stratégique, Réseau des Femmes Professionnelles Maritimes et Portuaires de l’Afrique de l’Ouest et du Centre, Côte d’Ivoire
Lionel Ondoa * CEO and Founder, YLO Médias Group, Mboko Magazine
Sylvie Laure SIBE * Continental President of WIMAFRICA
Mariette Degan * Programme Officer, National Association of Women Processors and Fishmongers of Benin
Jean-Paul Wong Mpondo * National Coordinator, Cameroonian Network for the Development of Island Communities and Indigenous Peoples (RECADELI)
Dorine Nininahazwe * – Greenpeace Africa
Mouchtadi Badi Bamdou * Marine and coastal environment officer, MOHELI NATIONAL PARK, Comores

Coordinated by:

Rym Benzina – Présidente de l’association La Saison Bleue &
Asmaa Benslimane First Vice-President and Secretary General of WIMAFRICA

African Atlantic Coast: What Public–Private Cooperation for Sustainable Fisheries?

14 August 2025 • 0 Comment

Conclusion of the Blue Africa Summit and recommendations of the Blue Africa Summit

16 July 2025 • 0 Comment

Presentation of the Blue Economy & Finance College’s work

16 July 2025 • 0 Comment

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