The national workshop of the GMES&Africa project in Mauritania took end on September 19, 2023. It brought together stakeholders and end users, representatives of different Mauritanian institutions and made it possible to focus on the technological innovations that upgrade the agricultural landscape in North Africa, highlighting the importance of Earth Observation (EO) in addressing the seasonal agriculture and water management challenges.

This hackathon is the outcome of a fruitful collaboration between GMES&Africa and Digital Earth Africa, with the CUCT support. A hundred students from different regions of Africa will compete under this event. They will have the possibility to use satellite imagery, Artificial Intelligence technologies and relevant in situ data, in order to come up with a consistent approach to detailed mapping of crop types.

The GEO-LDN is inviting you to attend to the “GEO-LDN Global Dialogue Forum 2023” due on November 2-4, 2023 in Cape Town (South Africa). You are a resource manager, land use planner, academia representative, EO specialist, environmental expert, decision-maker ? Don’t hesitate to apply for this Forum before August 31^st, 2023.

A training workshop bringing together water resource managers is being held in Tunis from July 31 to August 4, 2023. It is organized by the OSS within the framework of the “Improving Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM), knowledge-based management and governance of the Niger Basin and the Iullemeden-Taoudéni/Tanezrouft aquifer system | NB-ITTAS project” which covers Algeria, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria and Tchad.

GMES and COPERNICEA together for the preservation of the African lands

The training workshop on Ecosystem Natural Capital Accounting (ENCA) taking place from May, 08 to 12, 2023 in Niamey, Niger will highlight the GMES&Africa and COPERNICEA regional initiatives which have both contributed to the establishment of geospatial decision support systems in Africa.

The Sahara and Sahel Observatory (OSS), in partnership with the Seychelles’ Ministry of Agriculture, Climate Change and the Environment, is currently holding a face-to-face training workshop on the SDG 15.3.1 indicator monitoring and a permanent mechanism establishment for monitoring and reporting on Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN), April 24-27, 2023 in Seychelles.

Second edition of the NewSpace Africa Conference, April 25-28, 2023 - Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire.

The OSS - North Africa Consortium is taking part in the second edition of the "NewSpace Africa Conference" which is currently being held in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire. Organized by Space in Africa, in collaboration with the African Union Commission, this Conference brings together the main stakeholders working on the African space sector development and promotion.

The OSS department coordinators met this morning with a delegation from the French Development Agency (AFD) composed of Mr. Mathieu Vasseur, Regional Director for North Africa, Ms. Caroline Rozières, Head of the transversal support and regional expertise unit, collective intelligence, Ms. Florence Llorens, Project Officer at AFD and Ms. Karen Colin de Verdière, Agriculture Water Environment Officer - AFD - Tunisia.

Alerting stakeholders (decision-makers, end users, private & academic sectors) on the valuation of Earth Observation for a sustainable management of natural resources, the capitalization of the GMES&Africa project first phase experiences are currently the subject of a Joint Service Workshop convened by the African Union Commission (AUC) from September 6 to 10, 2021 in Zanzibar (Tanzania).