The navies of Benin Republic, Togo, and Nigeria have launched Operation Safe Domain II, with the motto ‘Enhancing Maritime Security via Collaboration for Regional Prosperity’.
The event took place on Monday in the Benin Republic.
The Niger Republic, one of the MoU’s signatories, was not present at the event.
According to the Director of the Multinational Maritime Coordination Centre Zone E, Commodore Aniedi Ibok, the operation is an aspect of a memorandum of understanding signed in 2014.
Ibok noted that the agreement is to enable the navies of each country to fight criminal elements without any border restrictions.