In its efforts to track illegal fishing vessels off the east and southern coasts of Africa, the African country of Mozambique which is famous for seafood and presided upon by Filipe Nyusi has adopted measures.

According to Ceoafrica, one of the measures is to set up a body, and it is estimated that the country alone loses about $67m (£55m) annually to illegal fishing.

Leonildo Chimarizene, a top official in Mozambique's fisheries ministry, said the centre would be based in the capital, Maputo, with the aim of improving co-operation among member states of the regional body, Sadc.

He added that “under the project, if a suspected fishing boat is spotted in a given territorial water, the centre will act to alert and communicate that an illegal fishing boat is in Mozambican, South African or Tanzanian territorial waters.

“An inspection team will, then, be dispatched to the area in question to intercept the vessel; this work will be done by experts on monitoring, controlling and inspecting.

“The centre will also have a training component”.