Detect illegal activities at sea with maritime domain awareness
[Douala – February 28th] A course on maritime domain awareness (MDA – Maritime Domain Awareness) was carried out from February 24 to 28, 2020 by the European project GoGIN in collaboration with the multinational coordination center-zone D in Douala (MMCC zone D)...
An e-learning platform to enhance skills in the Gulf of Guinea
In an initial meeting on 16 January in Lisbon, the GoGIN team, Expertise France and the Edisoft-EDU Digital consortium defined the development agenda of the TESS e-learning platform (Training and Education Support System). The TESS platform will be deployed in the 27...
African Maritime Security Forum in Dakar
The Africa Maritime Security Forum was held in Dakar from January 20th-22nd 2020 to celebrate the 45th anniversary of Senegal Navy. About twenty high ranking speakers (Chief of Staff of the Navy of the Guinean Gulf countries and major partner countries) addressed all...
Training : Crisis response in Cape Verde
The GoGIN team organised a complete crisis management exercise in Cape Verde from 4 to 12 December 2019 in collaboration with the coast guard of Cape Verde. This first collaboration with the Cape Verde authorities enabled work with thirty participants from 8...
Ghana : Towards improved maritime domain awareness
A course on Maritime Domaine Awareness (MDA) was given within the premises of the multinational coordination centre- zone F (MMCC zone F) in Accra from November 16th-30th, 2019. Led by GoGIN and carried out in close collaboration with the ICC and CRESMAO training...
GoGIN amid the Friends of Gulf of Guinea G7++
The annual plenary meeting of the G7++ Friends of the Gulf of Guinea was held in Accra, Ghana on November 5-6 2019. Co-chaired by the deputy-Ministers of Defence of Ghana and France, this meeting gathered more than 200 representatives of 21 countries and 9 regional...
Accreditation of pool of specialists to secure the waters of the Gulf of Guinea
Abidjan, 23 October 2019 – Twenty seven professionals from the maritime sector from 9 countries in the Gulf of Guinea have recently successfully completed a 2 month training programme in maritime safety and security. The training was delivered by the ISMI...
Cameroon centres now equipped to use the information sharing system YARIS
To prepare the installation of the forthcoming information sharing system YARIS, the GoGIN project proceeded with equipment transfer within the different maritime security centres located in Cameroon, dedicated to maritime data visualisation and analysis. Christophe...
How naval forces can contribute to maritime stability and security?
Bertrand Demez, GoGIN project coordinator, attended the 12th Regional Seapower Symposium, organised by the Italian Navy within the Venice arsenal from October 15th to 18th 2019. The theme was: Navies beyond traditional roles: crewing efforts to project stability and...
GoGIN is invited to the maritime security conference in Nigeria
The 2019 GMSC (Global Maritime Security Conference) took place from the 7 to 9 October 2019 in Abuja, Nigeria. Close to 80 countries and organisations participated in this international conference on maritime security in the Gulf of Guinea organised by the Federal...