Agence pour la sécurité de la navigation aérienne en Afrique et à Madagascar | |
ASECNA sign at Bissau Airport, Bissau, Guinea-Bissau | |
Map of member states in Africa | |
Nickname | ASECNA |
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Formation | December 12, 1959; 65 years ago (1959-12-12) |
Type | Intergovernmental organization |
Headquarters | 32, avenue Jean-Jaurès BP 3144, Dakar, Senegal |
Membership | 19, France and 18 African nations |
Official language | French |
Director General | Prosper Zo'o Minto'o |
Chairman of the Board of Directors | Jean Lamy |
Chairman of the Committee of Ministers of ASECNA | Hervé Yves Hehomey |
The Agency for Aerial Navigation Safety in Africa and Madagascar (L'Agence pour la Sécurité de la Navigation aérienne en Afrique et à Madagascar, ASECNA) is an air traffic control agency based in Dakar, Senegal.
It manages 16.1 million square kilometres of airspace (1.5 times the size of Europe) covering six Flight Information Regions (FIRs) – Antananarivo, Brazzaville, Dakar Oceanic and Terrestrial, Niamey and N’Djamena. ASECNA Air Traffic Control centres are based at international airports in each of these cities.
In July 2008, a strike by ASECNA staff in Gabon disrupted air traffic in Cameroon and elsewhere.
Member states
- Benin
- Burkina Faso
- Cameroon
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Comores
- Equatorial Guinea
- France
- Gabon
- Guinea-Bissau
- Ivory Coast
- Madagascar
- Mali
- Mauritania
- Niger
- Republic of Congo
- Rwanda
- Senegal
- Togo
References
- Visites du ministre des Transports et de l'Aviation Civile à l'aéroport international Diori Hamani de Niamey et au CNUT : s'enquérir des conditions de travail des agents Archived 2011-07-27 at the Wayback Machine. Seini Seydou Zakaria, le Sahel (Niamey) 18 June 2009
- "Aéroport international de Douala: Près de 300 passagers bloqués à Douala". cameroon-info.net. 22 July 2008. Archived from the original on 2008-07-31. Retrieved 30 October 2008.