Académie Navale

The Naval Academy in Nouadhibou trains officers, petty officers and personnel for the Mauritanian Navy and Coast Guard as well as for the fishing and port sectors. Attached to the national armed forces general staff, it absorbed the former École Nationale d'Enseignement Maritime et des Pêches (ENEMP), which became its higher school for officers.

Good to know

• Reported as created in 2014 and attached to the armed forces general staff.
• Transformed the ENEMP into an École Supérieure des Officiers and the Centre d'Instruction Navale into a naval training centre.
• Has trained 13,851 people for the Defence and Fisheries ministries over a little more than a decade.
• Its 2025-2026 graduates included navigation officers and holders of a professional Licence in marine and fisheries sciences; first stone of a new headquarters laid in July 2026.

What you can study

• Maritime
• Engineering

Degrees awarded

• Professional licence

Admission

For its engineering-officer track, entry is through track 1 of the Concours National d'Ingénieurs de Mauritanie (CNIM), open to preparatory-class students.

Sources

1. AMI – Le ministre de la Défense préside la clôture de l'année académique 2025-2026 à l'Académie navale (24 Jul 2026)
2. Nord Info – Cérémonie de sortie d'une nouvelle promotion de l'Académie Navale (1 Jul 2017)
3. IPGEI – Concours national (CNIM)
4. OpenStreetMap Nominatim – Nouadhibou (city)

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