On 26th June 2009, the 2nd AMESD-EUMETCast satellite receiving station was officially inaugurated on the roof of the Mauritius Oceanography Institute (MOI), AMESD Regional Implementation Center (RIC) for the Indian Ocean Commission region, in Quatre Bornes, Mauritius.
This inauguration has been done at the closure of the 5th AMESD Technical Expert Meeting which was hosted by the MOI from 23 to 25 June. The meeting, gathering 15 technical experts from the different regional implementation centers (RIC) of AMESD (Botswana, Ethiopia, Kenya, Niger, RDC, Mauritius) led to very concrete and important results and recommendations and constituted another important step in the AMESD implementation.








