Agence pour la sécurité de la navigation aérienne en Afrique et à Madagascar
| Agence pour la sécurité de la navigation aérienne en Afrique et à Madagascar ASECNA |
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| Seat of the organs |
Dakar , Senegal
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18th |
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1959 |
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The Agence pour la sécurité de la navigation aérienne en Afrique et à Madagascar (ASECNA) , in English the Aviation Safety Agency for Africa and Madagascar , is a pan-African air traffic control agency based in Dakar , Senegal . The agency controls and monitors air traffic for 18 African member states over an area of 16.1 million square kilometers in six flight information areas.
history
The ASECNA was founded with the "Treaty of Saint-Louis", signed in the Senegalese city of the same name on December 12, 1959 in the course of the independence of the French, West African colonies. The treaty was replaced by the "Dakar Convention" on October 15, 1974.
organization
The highest supervisory body of ASECNA is the Council of Ministers ( Comité des Ministres ), in which all transport ministers of the member states are represented. A supervisory board ( Conseil d'administration ) is subordinate to the body, to which all member states also send a representative. A directorate-general, whose head is appointed for four years, manages the agency's executive tasks.
The Dakar Convention provides that ASECNA is responsible for air traffic control in the member states and monitors the entire common airspace. If a member state so wishes, the agency can also control and monitor national flight activities. Nine member states have delegated the latter to ASECNA.
ASECNA monitors and controls an airspace of 16.1 million square kilometers, which is divided into six flight information areas: Antananarivo, Brazzaville, Dakar Océanique, Dakar Terrestre, Niamey and Ndjamena. It monitors 27 international airports and around 76 national and regional airports in the member states.
In addition to air traffic control, ASECNA also has other tasks, including three training institutes subordinate to the agency: The Ecole Africaine de la Météorologie et de l'Aviation Civile in Niamey, the Ecole Régionale de Sécurité Incendie in Doula, and the Ecole Régionale de la Navigation Aérienne et du Management in Dakar.
Member states
- Equatorial Guinea (since January 1, 1988)
- Benin (since December 12, 1959)
- Burkina Faso (since December 12, 1959)
- Ivory Coast (since December 12, 1959)
- France (since December 12, 1959)
- Gabon (since December 12, 1959)
- Guinea-Bissau (since January 1, 2006)
- Cameroon (since January 1, 1961)
- Comoros (since January 1, 2005)
- Madagascar (since December 12, 1959)
- Mali (since December 12, 1959)
- Mauritania (since December 12, 1959)
- Niger (since December 12, 1959)
- Republic of the Congo (since December 12, 1959)
- Senegal (since December 12, 1959)
- Togo (since January 1, 1964)
- Chad (since December 12, 1959)
- Central African Republic (since December 12, 1959)
Web links
- Official website (French, English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Un peu d'histoire. ASECNA, accessed March 9, 2019 (French).
- ↑ Annual Report 2016. (pdf) ASECNA, December 31, 2016, accessed on March 9, 2019 (French).
- ↑ Etats membres. (No longer available online.) ASECNA, archived from the original on November 30, 2016 ; accessed on March 9, 2019 (French). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
