The Agency for Aerial Navigation Safety in Africa and Madagascar (L'Agence pour la Sécurité de la Navigation aérienne en Afrique et à Madagascar, ASECNA) is an air traffic control agency based in Dakar, Senegal.
It manages 16.1 million square kilometres of airspace (1.5 times the size of Europe) covering six Flight Information Regions (FIRs) – Antananarivo, Brazzaville, Dakar Oceanic and Terrestrial, NiameyVisites du ministre des Transports et de l'Aviation Civile à l'aéroport international Diori Hamani de Niamey et au CNUT : s'enquérir des conditions de travail des agents . Seini Seydou Zakaria, le Sahel (Niamey) 18 June 2009 and N’Djamena. ASECNA Air Traffic Control centres are based at international airports in each of these cities.
In July 2008, a strike by ASECNA staff in Gabon disrupted air traffic in Cameroon and elsewhere.
Member states Benin Burkina Faso Cameroon Central African Republic Chad Comores Equatorial Guinea France Gabon Guinea-Bissau Ivory Coast Madagascar Mali Mauritania Niger Republic of Congo Rwanda Senegal Togo
References
External links ASECNA website