General description
ASECNA is an international public organization created in 1959 with the primary mission of providing air navigation services to ensure the safety and regularity of flights in the airspace entrusted to it by its 19 member states.With an airspace covering an area of 16,127,000 km2 (1.5 times the size of Europe) divided into seven Flight Information Regions (FIRs) defined by the Organization, ASECNA is a perfect model of cooperative airspace management and embodies undeniable leadership in South-South cooperation, having been awarded the Edward Warner Award in 1972.An organization ardently advocating for the integration of African skies through its CUPA (Single Sky for Africa) program, ASECNA also prioritizes technical and institutional cooperation as a fundamental option for addressing changes in the aviation sector. Its “SBAS for Africa and the Indian Ocean” program, recognized by ICAO under service provider identifier No. 7, positions the Agency at the heart of the global SBAS infrastructure, the development of which is booming.