{"id":7007,"date":"2026-09-15T15:11:29","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T13:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.wi.hs-flensburg.de\/africacentre\/?p=7007"},"modified":"2026-09-15T22:55:40","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T20:55:40","slug":"maritime-expertise-for-germany-africa-cooperation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www2.wi.hs-flensburg.de\/africacentre\/maritime-expertise-for-germany-africa-cooperation\/","title":{"rendered":"Maritime Expertise for Germany-Africa Cooperation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Flensburg, 16\/09\/2026:<\/strong> Maritime trade, port infrastructure and the governance of ocean space are gaining strategic importance for Africa&#8217;s economic development. Shifting global trade routes add to their geopolitical relevance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Against this background, the CBTA welcomes Prof. Sander Limant as a new member. Prof. Limant is professor for Nautical Science at Hochschule Flensburg. His expertise covers the international law of the sea, maritime commercial law and navigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under the direction of Prof. Kay Pfaffenberger, the Centre continues to broaden its interdisciplinary profile. With this addition, maritime affairs becomes a new field of competence, complementing the Centre&#8217;s work on economic cooperation, energy transition and development policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The appointment strengthens the Centre&#8217;s capacity to address the maritime dimension of long-term Germany-Africa partnership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flensburg, 16\/09\/2026: Maritime trade, port infrastructure and the governance of ocean space are gaining strategic importance for Africa&#8217;s economic development. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":7005,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www2.wi.hs-flensburg.de\/africacentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www2.wi.hs-flensburg.de\/africacentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www2.wi.hs-flensburg.de\/africacentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www2.wi.hs-flensburg.de\/africacentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www2.wi.hs-flensburg.de\/africacentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www2.wi.hs-flensburg.de\/africacentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7008,"href":"http:\/\/www2.wi.hs-flensburg.de\/africacentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7007\/revisions\/7008"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www2.wi.hs-flensburg.de\/africacentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www2.wi.hs-flensburg.de\/africacentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www2.wi.hs-flensburg.de\/africacentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www2.wi.hs-flensburg.de\/africacentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}