2.8 Later African Agreements: The Code of Conduct
Concerning the Repression of Piracy, Armed Robbery
Against Ships, and Illicit Maritime Activity in West
and Central Africa [2013 Code of Conduct] (2013)
The Code of Conduct concerning the repression of piracy, armed robbery against
ships, and illicit maritime activity in West and Central Africa, also referred to as the
2013 Code of Conduct, was developed by the Economic Community of Central
African States (ECCAS), the Economic Community of West African States
(ECOWAS) and the Gulf of Guinea Commission (GGC), with the assistance of
IMO, pursuant to United Nations Security Council resolutions 2018 (2011) and 2039
(2012), which expressed concern about the threat that piracy and armed robbery at
sea in the Gulf of Guinea pose to international navigation, security and the economic
development of states in the region.
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An initial meeting held in Benin in March of 2013
54 was followed by the formal
adoption of the Code of Conduct in Yaoundé, Cameroon on June 25th the same
year.
55 Signers include:
• Angola,
• Benin,
• Burkina Faso,
• Burundi,
• Cameroon,
• Cape Verde,
• Central African Republic,
• Chad,
• Congo,
• Côte d’Ivoire,
• Democratic Republic of the Congo,
• Equatorial Guinea,
• Gabon,
• Gambia,
• Ghana,
• Guinea,
• Guinea Bissau,
• Liberia,
• Mali,
• Niger,
• Nigeria,
• Sao Tome
53 West and Central Africa Regional Agreements and Information Sharing.
54 Id.
55 Id.
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