{"id":330779,"date":"2025-03-25T12:54:59","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T07:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=330779"},"modified":"2025-04-01T12:33:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T07:03:10","slug":"exercise-aikeyme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/exercise-aikeyme\/","title":{"rendered":"Exercise AIKEYME"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News<\/strong>&#8211; India is set to enhance its military and maritime cooperation with African nations through two key initiatives\u2014Exercise AIKEYME (Africa-India Key Maritime Engagement) and IOS Sagar (Indian Ocean Ship Sagar). <strong>Exercise AIKEYME.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-331355 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Exercise-AIKEYME.png?resize=550%2C365&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Exercise AIKEYME\" width=\"550\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Exercise-AIKEYME.png?resize=300%2C199&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Exercise-AIKEYME.png?resize=1024%2C680&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Exercise-AIKEYME.png?resize=768%2C510&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Exercise-AIKEYME.png?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>About Exercise AIKEYME<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Aikeyme marks <em>India&#8217;s first-ever multilateral naval exercise with 10 African nations<\/em>.It\u00a0 focuses on strengthening maritime collaboration, bolstering maritime security, and tackling regional challenges.<\/li>\n<li>It is scheduled to take place off the coast of <em>Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania<\/em>, from April 13 to 18, 2025.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Participating nations<\/strong>&#8211; Tanzania (co-host), Comoros, Djibouti, Eritrea, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Mozambique, Seychelles, and South Africa.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Aim<\/strong>&#8211; To <em>improve interoperability<\/em> between the Indian Navy and African navies, emphasizing joint efforts against piracy and drug trafficking.<\/li>\n<li><strong><strong>Key Activities: <\/strong><\/strong><em>Visit, Board, Search, and Seizure (VBSS) drills<\/em>, arms firing exercises, helicopter operations, search and rescue missions, and <em>table-top and command post exercises on anti-piracy operations<\/em> and information-sharing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>About IOS Sagar<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The IOS Sagar initiative is designed to deepen India\u2019s maritime collaboration with Indian Ocean Region (IOR) countries.<\/li>\n<li>It involves the deployment of the <em>Indian Navy\u2019s INS Sunayna<\/em>, crewed by Indian sailors alongside 44 personnel from nine African nations.<\/li>\n<li>The initiative will take place from April 5 to May 8, 2025.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Key Participating Countries<\/strong>: Sri Lanka, Maldives, Mauritius, Comoros, Kenya, Madagascar, Mozambique, Seychelles, and South Africa.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Key Activities<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>The ship will make <em>port calls<\/em> at <em>Dar-es-Salaam, Nacala, Port Louis, Port Victoria, and Male.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>It will conduct joint surveillance of the <em>Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZs)<\/em> of <em>Tanzania, Mozambique, Mauritius, and Seychelles<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>The Personnel will undergo <em>two-week training sessions in Kochi<\/em>, covering sea training, watchkeeping, and other professional naval activities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News&#8211; India is set to enhance its military and maritime cooperation with African nations through two key initiatives\u2014Exercise AIKEYME (Africa-India Key Maritime Engagement) and IOS Sagar (Indian Ocean Ship Sagar). Exercise AIKEYME. About Exercise AIKEYME Aikeyme marks India&#8217;s first-ever multilateral naval exercise with 10 African nations.It\u00a0 focuses on strengthening maritime collaboration, bolstering maritime security, and&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/exercise-aikeyme\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Exercise AIKEYME<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10367,"featured_media":331355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,11204,12039],"tags":[11872],"class_list":["post-330779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-defence-exercises","category-knolls","tag-9pm-daily-factly","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Exercise-AIKEYME.png?fit=1280%2C850&ssl=1","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330779","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\/10367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}