Shem Oirere is a Kenyan journalist who previously worked for daily newspapers as a general news correspondent, business reporter and sub-editor before turning to full-time freelancing. For the more than 20 years, he has covered various sectors of Africa’s economy including agriculture, food processing, and maritime industries. A graduate of the University of South Africa, he has traveled within and outside Africa covering various industry events that have a bearing on the continent’s economy on behalf of different international consumer and trade publications. He currently lives in Nairobi, Kenya.
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Senegal President Bassirou Diomaye Faye is proposing a review of fisheries agreements the West African country has signed with foreign entities to ensure the deals are more responsive to overfishing and its impact on small-scale fishers.
Faye, who was sworn in on 2 May 2024, said another goal of auditing the country’s maritime fisheries regulations is curbing IUU fishing that has proliferated along Senegal’s coastal waters.
A 2022
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Chile has become the latest country to join the Fisheries Transparency Initiative (FiTI) and the first country ranked in the top ten of global fishing output to do so, while Madagascar and Cabo Verde have published updated fisheries data online, helping both nations inch closer to meeting transparency requirements under FiTI’s internationally recognized standard.
FiTI, a Seychelles-based nonprofit that aims to bolster sustainability in
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Emma Glassco, the director of Liberia’s fisheries regulatory body – the National Fisheries and Aquaculture Authority (NaFAA) – has rejected calls for her resignation over allegations of corruption ranging from the illegal dismissal of NaFAA workers to unfair treatment of onboard observers.
In response to these calls, Glassco has requested the formation of an independent committee – organized by the executive arm of the
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A new report is calling for Icelandic fishing company Samherji to properly acknowledge its role in a fish quota scandal it carried out in collaboration with Namibian government officials, as well as properly compensate Namibian fishers who lost their jobs as a result of the misconduct.
The scandal, first publicized in 2019 and colloquially known as Fishrot, resulted in scores of workers losing their jobs due to large chunks of the
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