{"id":266495,"date":"2023-10-27T18:41:22","date_gmt":"2023-10-27T13:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=266495"},"modified":"2023-10-28T10:25:44","modified_gmt":"2023-10-28T04:55:44","slug":"gulf-of-guinea-eu-and-india-carry-out-joint-naval-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/gulf-of-guinea-eu-and-india-carry-out-joint-naval-exercise\/","title":{"rendered":"Gulf of Guinea: EU and India carry out joint naval exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201cGulf of Guinea: EU and India carry out joint naval exercise\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in <\/span><b>\u201cPIB\u201d on 27th October 2023<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>Why in the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India and the European Union (EU) have conducted their maiden joint naval exercise in the Gulf of Guinea.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The exercise was conducted with the aim to boost maritime security cooperation in the region.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Where is the Gulf of Guinea?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-266498\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/AC95E1B8-F356-4661-B593-3C4553331D5D-56087-000018CF131BE253.jpg?resize=300%2C187&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/AC95E1B8-F356-4661-B593-3C4553331D5D-56087-000018CF131BE253.jpg?resize=300%2C187&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/AC95E1B8-F356-4661-B593-3C4553331D5D-56087-000018CF131BE253.jpg?resize=768%2C478&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/AC95E1B8-F356-4661-B593-3C4553331D5D-56087-000018CF131BE253.jpg?w=980&amp;ssl=1 980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<table style=\"border-style: solid;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Specification<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Details<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Location<\/b><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Western African Coast<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Ocean<\/b><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Northeastern most part of the Atlantic Ocean<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Rivers<\/b><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Volta and Niger rivers are two of its primary tributaries<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Known for<\/b><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oil and natural gas.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Significance<\/b><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Null Island, defined as the intersection of the Equator and Prime Meridian (zero degrees latitude and longitude) is in the gulf.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Piracy<\/b><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Gulf of Guinea is also known as the world\u2019s hotspot for maritime piracy.\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><b>UPSC Syllabus Topic:<\/b> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Places in News<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cGulf of Guinea: EU and India carry out joint naval exercise\u201d published in \u201cPIB\u201d on 27th October 2023 Why in the News? India and the European Union (EU) have conducted their maiden joint naval exercise in the Gulf of Guinea. The exercise was conducted with the aim&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/gulf-of-guinea-eu-and-india-carry-out-joint-naval-exercise\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gulf of Guinea: EU and India carry out joint naval exercise<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,11204,11211,1],"tags":[11872],"class_list":["post-266495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-defence-exercises","category-places-in-news","category-uncategorized","tag-9pm-daily-factly","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":32,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1698472507},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}