- Title
- The combined exclusive maritime zone of Africa
- Creator
- Du Plooy, Inalize
- Subject
- Maritime law -- Africa Law of the sea
- Subject
- Economic zones (Law of the sea) -- Africa Territorial waters -- Africa
- Date Issued
- 2017
- Date
- 2017
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- LLM
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/16109
- Identifier
- vital:28321
- Description
- The AIMS is Africa’s first comprehensive maritime strategy. Adopted in 2014, the AIMS proposes unique objectives to address the common maritime challenges faced by African States. One of these objectives is the establishment of the Combined Exclusive Maritime Zone of Africa (CEMZA). The AIMS states that CEMZA, “will grant Africa enormous crosscutting geostrategic, economic, and political, security and social benefits, as well as minimize the risks of all transnational threats including organized crime and terrorism in Africa”. This dissertation, consequently, aims to provide an overview of the impact which the successful establishment of the CEMZA would have on the African Maritime Domain (AMD) with a focus on sectors such as intra-African trade, vessel-source marine pollution, maritime security and fisheries. This study, furthermore, aims to determine the advantages of the CEMZA as well as the steps which would have to be taken to ensure the success of the CEMZA from a legal point of view. Established within this dissertation is the view that the CEMZA would have to be accompanied by various intermediate steps and would function as if the borders between African countries were deemed not to exist for administrative purposes. This would, however, not entail that African States sacrifice their sovereignty regarding resources within their jurisdiction by sharing it with all African States. The resources of each State, therefore, would remain its sovereign property, and the pooling of resources within the CEMZA would be absent. This dissertation concludes by stating that the CEMZA is feasible in the long term. Owing to the political and legal challenges, reinforced by a lack of capacity as well as human and fiscal resources, it is, however, not achievable in the short-to-medium term.
- Format
- vii, 146 leaves
- Format
- Publisher
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Law
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
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