Workshop : How to build regional training capacity for maritime law enforcement?
The GoGIN project, represented by Bertrand Demez and Eric Glotin, participated in the workshop “Building a sustainable regional training capacity for maritime law enforcement”, co-organised by Interpol, the UNODC, and the US State Department (Accra, 25 to 28 February...
Follow the live events at sea in the Gulf of Guinea
Maritime Domain Awareness for Trade – Gulf of Guinea (MDAT-GoG) is a cooperation centre between the Royal Navy (UKMTO) and the French Navy (MICA-Center) in support of the Yaounde Process. This centre has been in operation since the 20th June 2016. The primary output...
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...
Zoom AMS 2020 : Interview of Colonel A. Dieng, ECOWAS
Africa Blue Economy Strategy
[Source: African Union-IBAR] The Africa Blue Economy Strategy was developed following the Sustainable Blue Economy Conference that took place in Nairobi, Kenya in 2018. The African leaders at that Conference urged the African Union (AU) to work with relevant...
Worldwide maritime piracy and robbery: report 2019
[Source : MICA Centre] For the first time since its creation in 2016, the Maritime Information Cooperation & Awareness Center (MICA Center) publishes an annual report on worldwide maritime piracy and robbery. This report identifies and describes the incidents...
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...
GoGIN supports the Directors of Yaounde Architecture regional centres
The coordinator Bertrand Demez and two regional managers, Eric Glotin and Christophe Girin, attended the Directors meeting of the 3 regional centres of Yaoundé Architecture held at CRESMAO in Abidjan October 3rd and 4th, 2019. The ICC, CRESMAO and CRESMAC play a...
Guinean authorities determined to secure the governance of their maritime space
With the extension of the legal evaluation mission carried out in Guinea in May 2019, a team from the GoGIN project and centres from the Yaoundé Architecture went to Conakry from 22 to 27 September 2019 to respond to the maritime prefecture’s proposals. The GoGIN team...
Gambia: legal assessment mission
Marta Ribeiro, GoGIN legal expert, in association with Ousmane Diouf, UNODC legal expert seconded to CRESMAO, presented the preliminary report on the analysis of national legislation related to the implementation of international conventions applicable to crimes at...
The GoGIN project supports the development of CRESMAC
CRESMAC (Regional Centre of Maritime Security in Central Africa), based in Pointe Noire (Republic of Congo), is one of two regional maritime security centres determined by the Yaoundé Architecture. Created in 2014, it is under the authority of the ECCAS (Economic...
Togo : lessons learned from the arrest of G-Dona1 pirates
The capacity of the components of the Yaoundé Architecture (YA), primarily the States, to bring a stop to the most criminal actions, is part of the priorities of all actors and partners. Reminder of events: a small oil tanker, the G Dona 1, was seized by pirates...
Nigeria hosts the global maritime security conference
The maritime domain of the Gulf of Guinea is of major geostrategic, economic and social importance. The insecurity is still very strong and endangers the economies and societies of the region. With this in mind, the Nigerian authorities have decided to organize a...
Oil spill pollution : maritime agencies of Benin train to fight
At the request of Benin, and under the auspice of the Yaoundé architecture, GoGIN, in collaboration with GI WACAF, organized a national level training exercise on the fight against oil spill between 25 June and 4 July. Articulated in three phases (theoretical...