EUNAVFOR

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News Archive - October 2011

RAdm James L. Foggo III (left) and RAdm Christian Canova

EU NAVFOR visited USNAVAF

October 28, 2011 - 12:05

Rear Admiral Christian Canova, Deputy Commander of EU NAVFOR, visited the United States Navy Base Naples, home of the Command, US Naval Forces Africa (USNAVAF) and the 6th Fleet on 19 October 2011. Rear Admiral James L. Foggo III, Deputy Commander 6th Fleet and Chief of Staff of USNAVAF, welcomed the Deputy Commander EU NAVFOR […]

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Media Day in Mombasa

Media Day in Mombasa

October 25, 2011 - 17:08

FGS BAYERN, visiting the port of Mombasa with the Force Headquarters (FHQ) Operation Atalanta embarked, has hosted a media day for regional media representatives from Kenya and Somalia. They were welcomed by the Commander Task Force (CTF), Rear Admiral Thomas E. P. Jugel. The Chief of Staff (COS) of the Task Force, Capt. Carlos Silva, […]

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PETRA 1 and AMISOM-RHIB's

EU NAVFOR warship INFANTA CRISTINA escorts AMISOM-vessel

October 25, 2011 - 12:57

EU NAVFOR warship SPS INFANTA CRISTINA left Mombasa’s waters last week to assume the escort of merchant vessel PETRA 1 which carries supplies for the African Union troops operating in Somalia as part of the AMISOM force. The journey is from Mombasa to Mogadishu and in addition to the ship escort, a Vessel Protection Detachment […]

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Full military honours

Common goal is to fight piracy

October 25, 2011 - 10:39

The flagship FGS BAYERN of the EU-led mission Atalanta recently visited in the port city of Mombasa in Kenya. The commander of Task Force 465, Rear Admiral Thomas E.P.Jugel, used the occasion to introduce himself to the commander of the Kenyan Navy, Major General Ngewa Mukala. In Kenya’s Maritime Headquarters, the German Navy Officer, was […]

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M/V CAROLINE SCAN, FGS KOELN and MPRA

EU NAVFOR warship escorts WFP-vessel

October 18, 2011 - 14:07

The German frigate FGS KOELN, participating in European Union Naval Force Somalia – Operation Atalanta, has recently escorted M/V CAROLINE SCAN to the Kenyan port Mombasa. The ship is chartered by the World Food Programme and will be loaded with urgently needed food for the people in Somalia. Additionally a German Vessel Protection Detachment (VPD) […]

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Replenishment at Sea

Replenishment at Sea increases operational capability

October 10, 2011 - 15:33

After several days conducting counter-piracy operations in the area off the Horn of Africa, the German naval warship FGS BAYERN conducts a rendezvous with the Dutch Supply Tanker HNLMS ZUIDERKRUIS to replenish her fuel tanks. Shortly after the tanker is alongside the frigate, the Replenishment at Sea (RAS) begins. Large hoses join the two ships […]

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FGS KOELN and whaler

Suspected Pirates disrupted by EU NAVFOR

October 9, 2011 - 12:00

On 7 October EU NAVFOR warship FGS KOELN successfully disrupted a suspect Pirate Action Group’s (PAG) supply boat, a whaler, operating in the Somali Basin about 200 nautical miles East of Tanzania. The whaler had been located previously by a Norwegian Maritime Patrol and Reconnaissance Aircraft (MPRA) under control of NATO Task Force 508, Operation […]

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7th TRADE Meeting

7th TRADE Meeting at EU NAVFOR Operational Headquarters

October 7, 2011 - 08:27

 The 7th meeting of the Training Awareness and De-confliction (TRADE) group took place on 4 October at the Operational Headquarters of EU NAVFOR Operation ATALANTA in Northwood. “TRADE is a very useful tool to co-ordinate and de-conflict training by different stakeholders”, said Rear Admiral Christian Canova, Deputy Operation Commander EU NAVFOR Somalia, as he welcomed […]

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Fishermen provided with food

EU NAVFOR warship saves five Somali fishermen

October 5, 2011 - 18:11

On 4 October 2011, the EUNAVFOR warship FGS KÖLN came to the rescue of five Somali fishermen drifting in the Indian Ocean in a broken-down fishing whaler and returned them safely to the shore. The Somali fishermen has been drifting for nine days following the breakdown of their engine and without any communication equipment available to […]

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UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General Augustine P. Mahiga

“International naval forces need to play a more robust role”

October 3, 2011 - 16:41

UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG), Augustine P. Mahiga, spoke clear words on how to counter Piracy off the coast of Somalia on the occasion of 20th Meeting of the International Contact Group (ICG) on Somalia in Copenhagen, Denmark. SRSG Mahiga urged the “growing need to deliver Somali capacity to deal with its own […]

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