Project news
Guinea’s Maritime Prefecture in the YARIS 2.0 era
Invited by the Maritime Prefecture of Guinea, represented by Colonel Sow, Expertise France through GoGIN II, the project that promotes the YARIS platform and financed by the European Union, organised a training workshop on the latest version of the platform known as...
The Yaoundé Architecture strengthens its pool of YARIS trainers
[Abidjan-ARSTM, 15 December 2023] The Permanent Secretary for State Action at Sea, represented by Colonel AKE Josée Nicole, chaired the closing ceremony of the train of trainers session in the use of YARIS (Yaoundé Architecture Regional Information System), in the...
Equatorial Guinea centres trained at YARIS
[Malabo, 20 to 24 November 2023] The coordination of maritime safety and security is essential to monitor and combat any illegal activity at sea (suspicious vessels, armed attacks, acts of piracy, pollution, illegal fishing, etc.). In Equatorial Guinea, this is...
Maritime domain news
Technology and maritime security in Africa: Opportunities and challenges in Gulf of Guinea
[Source : Science Direct] Maritime security threats undermine safety and security at sea and, in turn, coastal states’ efforts to harness the resources in their maritime domain. This assertion is true for coastal states and Small Island Developing States (SIDS) on...
EU updates Maritime Security Strategy
[Source : European Commission] Today, the European Commission and the High Representative adopted a Joint Communication on an enhanced EU Maritime Security Strategy to ensure a peaceful use of the seas and safeguard the maritime domain against new threats. They have...
EU supports MMCC Zone F with monitoring equipment
[Source : Ghanaian Times] The European Union (EU), through the Support to West Africa Integrated Maritime Security (SWAIMS), has donated monitoring equipment to the Multinational Maritime Coordination Centre (MMCC) Zone F in Accra on Wednesday. The donation is to...
AN OPERATIONAL PLATFORM
for the maritime security community
YARIS is operational since September 2020. It offers a secure working environment to the community (collaborative intranet), and operational functions covering the spectrum of needs (anticipation, alert, coordination, command, legal) operated through the 3 application modules: advanced mapping, messaging, logbook.
YARIS can integrate various sources of information (third-party systems, sensors). Servers and encrypted data are hosted in an ISO27001 data centre. Access to YARIS is via a virtual private network.
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What is the GoGIN+ project?
The GoGIN+ project (Gulf of Guinea Inter-regional Network – Extension), financed by the European Union, is a direct extension of the GoGIN project, which was started in 2016 and completed in October 2021. Its aim is to contribute to maritime safety and security in the Gulf of Guinea in order to promote the blue economy and the economic development of countries. Specifically, the GOGIN+ project supports the deployment, within the maritime authorities of the Gulf of Guinea, of the maritime information sharing and incident management platform called YARIS (Yaoundé Architecture Regional Information System), developed and designed in close partnership with the Yaoundé Architecture authorities.
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