The 17th Extraordinary Session of the General Assembly of the Maritime Organisation of West and Central Africa (MOWCA) started yesterday 25 January 2023 in Accra, Ghana, under the chairmanship of the Ghanaian Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation. Dr. Paul Adaliku, MOWCA's SG, presented the 2022 Annual Report of this organisation which is slowly recovering from a decade of near-stagnation. The efforts made so far are commendable.

The Cameroonian delegation led by Mr. Messina Gérard Marie, mandated by Cameroon's Minister of Transport, Mr. Jean Ernest Massena Ngalle Bibehe, took an active part, as is always the case. The expert working session ends today, 26 January 2023 and will be followed by the ministerial session to hold tomorrow, 27 January 2023. The consolidated action plan, presented by the institution was jointly drafted with the International Maritime Organisation and is an important lever that heralds a more performant MOWCA in the years to come.