Navy won’t send ships in annual West Africa deployment amid readiness woes

Since 2017, the Canadian Navy has deployed two Kingston-class vessels to West Africa annually as part of a naval forward presence mission, aside from a COVID-19-affected 2021.

HMCS Shawinigan was one of two Kingston-class ships to be deployed to the Gulf of Guinea off the coast of West Africa in 2020. Canadian Armed Forces photograph by Cpl. Yongku Kang

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BY NEIL MOSS

January 31, 2024

Mired in a personnel and equipment readiness crisis, Canada is forgoing its annual deployment of two warships to West Africa this year.

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