EU TO HELP AFRICAN ATC AGENCY WITH SATELLITE NAVIGATION TECHNOLOGY ASSISTANCE
January 1st, 2018
A COOPERATION Agreement has been struck between the European Union (EU) and the Agency for Aerial Navigation Safety in Africa and Madagascar (ASECNA) over the mutual development of satellite navigation. The deal commits the EU to creating an autonomous satellite-based augmentation service (SBAS) to help ASECNA, which coordinates air navigation in 14 African countries and Madagascar. These are mostly former French colonies, namely Senegal, Mauritania, Côte d’Ivoire, Benin, Togo, Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, Chad, Central African Republic, Cameroon, Gabon, and ...
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