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...
The YARIS Platform Helps Enhance Maritime Surveillance in Guinea
At the request of Guinea’s Maritime Prefecture, a training session on maritime surveillance and crisis management was coordinated by GoGIN and CRESMAC experts from 12 to 16 December 2022. Training on crisis management The event was attended by 17 operational...
MICA Center Annual Report 2022 is out!
[Source : MICA Center] Now a tradition, with New Year wishes comes the MICA Center Annual Report on Maritime security Worldwide. Although the decline in maritime piracy and robbery that began in 2021 continued in 2022, this decrease is due in particular to a...
Pirates and Oil Theft in the Niger Delta: an analysis of the connection between piracy and oil bunkering
[Source: CMR] The CRIMSON project is pleased to announce the “Pirates and Oil Theft in the Niger Delta: an analysis of the connection between piracy and oil bunkering” report, launched on 1st December 2022 at the G7++ Friends of the Gulf of Guinea (FoGG) in Abidjan,...
YARIS: a monitoring tool but also a means for analysis
Permanent surveillance of the seas is a prerequisite for the peaceful and sustainable utilisation of the marine and maritime resources. Such surveillance is a necessary condition for conducting targeted maritime policing operations in cases of suspected illegal or...
Benin strengthens its maritime surveillance teams
As part of the support provided by the French Navy to the Beninese Navy, two GoGIN instructors trained eight signal station watchkeepers to use the YARIS platform, from 5 to 9 December 2022, in Cotonou. To ensure the surveillance of its coasts, the Beninese Navy has...
An evaluation of the Yaoundé Architecture, by GoGMI
[Source : GoGMI] Executive Summary The thoughts and content of the report do not in any way represent the ideas, opinions or views of the Gambia Armed Forces or the Gulf of Guinea Maritime Institute. The Gulf of Guinea has been a piracy hotbed for about a decade,...
GoGIN co-facilitates innovative training on board the PHA Tonnerre
From 7 to 19 November, GoGIN participated in a training designed and provided by the French Navy on board the Landing Helicopter Dock Tonnerre. This pilot training brought together 10 participants from the maritime operations centres (MOCs) of Benin, Côte d’Ivoire,...
Grand African NEMO Makes Waves In Gulf Of Guinea
[Source: ADF Africa Defense Forum] More than 20 nations recently completed the Grand African Navy Exercise for Maritime Operations (NEMO) 2022, an annual event led by the French Navy. The first phase focused on at-sea skills such as boarding vessels to combat illegal...
YARIS connects all the participating centres of the Grand African Nemo exercise (GANO 22)
The YARIS platform was implemented for the second time throughout the Gulf of Guinea as part of the annual GANO 22 exercise, organised by the French Navy, CRESMAO and CRESMAC, from 11 to 16 October 2022. The exercise management team (DIREX) was based at CRESMAO, in...
The development of the YARIS platform follows a collaborative approach
The development process of the YARIS platform requires regular discussions and decisions involving all the key stakeholders: the managers of the GoGIN components (Information systems, Training and Organisation), the Yaounde Architecture (YA) representatives and the IT...
Understanding YARIS: Interview by GoGMI
Discover the interview conducted by Stéphanie Schandorf, Associate Director at the Gulf of Guinea Maritime Institute (GoGMI) where Gilles Chehab, Head of Capacity Building of GoGIN, presents the interest of YARIS for information sharing in the framework of the Yaoundé...
The YARIS national network connects the maritime agencies of São Tomé e Príncipe
[São Tomé, 16 September 2022], Captain Armindo Pinho da Fonseca e Silva Rodrigues, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Santomean Army, chaired the closing ceremony of the YARIS (Yaoundé Architecture Regional Information System) user training programme, in the presence of the...
Guinea fights illegal fishing thanks to YARIS
An operation to combat illegal fishing was successfully recently carried out by the maritime operations centre (MOC) of the Maritime Prefecture of Guinea, using the YARIS platform. The operation resulted in the boarding and inspection of the offending vessel. The...
Ghana’s maritime stakeholders connect to YARIS
On 15 July 2022, the Deputy Director General in charge of Operations at the Ghana Maritime Authority (GMA), Mr. Daniel Appianin, congratulated the 28 participants of the 2-week YARIS training held in Accra. He stated that the operational centres will be connected to...
Lessons learnt by the YARIS trainers in Paris
The team of YARIS trainers shared lessons learnt, discussed the strengths and weaknesses of the YARIS platform and agreed on a new learning approach during a workshop in Paris from 20 to 24 June 2022. A look back over a week of dialogue and exchange Training in the...
What is IUU fishing?
[Source: Maritimafrica] IUU fishing, for “ Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated “ is a term used for over fifteen years, by international organisms, national governments, media, Non-Governmental Organizations, etc. This term was used for the first time in 1997 at the...
The European GoGIN+ project in nutshell
Discover the outlines of the GoGIN+ project and its flagship product, the YARIS platform in this trilingual leaflet (French, English, Portuguese). Read the leaflet. Download the printable version of the leaflet.
YARIS in Togo: the Maritime Agencies are connected
On May 20th 2022, The Minister-Counselor for the Sea, Mr Stanislas Baba, presided over the closing ceremony of the training on the use of the YARIS platform. After this 15-day training course, co-organised in Lomé by the Maritime Prefecture, the national YARIS network...
The maritime agencies of Guinea are connected to the YARIS platform
On May 13th 2022, the Minister Delegate in charge of National Defence, retired General Aboubacar Camara, presided over the closing ceremony of the training programme on how to use the YARIS platform (Yaoundé Architecture Regional Information System), in the presence...
The YARIS national network connects the maritime agencies of Guinea-Bissau
[Bissau, 6 May 2022]. The Minister of Defense Nacional, Lieutenant General Sandji Fati, co-chaired the closing ceremony of the YARIS (Yaoundé Architecture Regional Information System) training programme, with the European Union Ambassador, Sonia Neto, in presence of...
The Nigerian Navy operational centres connected to YARIS
The Nigerian Navy, first Navy in the Gulf of Guinea The Nigerian Navy is structured into five commands, three of which are operationally oriented. Each of these three major operational commands is headed by a Flag Officer whose responsibilities extend specifically to...