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...
Togo: Maritime agencies train to fight against IUU fishing
At the request of Togolese maritime stakeholders, GoGIN organized a training in Lomé, from 25 June to 3 July 2019, on the fight against IUU fishing, with the assistance of the European PESCAO project, itself supported by managers from the SRFC (Sub-regional fisheries...
Maritime safety & security are learned at ISMI with the support of GoGIN
On 29 August in Abidjan, the ISMI (Interregional Maritime Safety Institute) started the course on maritime safety and security, developed with the support of GoGIN. ISMI is a specialized institute of the ARSTM (Regional Academy of Maritime Science), which organized...
Chiefs of Naval of Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Gendarmerie of Burkina Faso Sign MoU on Maritime Security
[Source : ECOWAS] Accra, 25th July 2019.The Chiefs of Naval staff of Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Sierra Leone as well as the Chief of Coast Guard of Liberia and the high Commander of the National Gendarmerie of Burkina Faso have signed a Memorandum of understanding...
Recommandations of Symposium on maritime security in the Gulf of Guinea
[Source: ITF] When piracy or armed robbery happen at sea, seafarers are on the frontline, at risk of being injured, assaulted, taken hostage or killed. Attacks have increased dramatically impacting thousands of seafarers and their families who fall victim and suffer...
The G7++ Friends of the Gulf of Guinea Group met in Brussels
The G7++ Friends of the Gulf of Guinea Group (FoGG) met on Tuesday, 2 July in Brussels, co-chaired by France and Ghana with the support of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and the European Commission. Read the full article published by DGRIS (French...
Ghana maritime agencies trained together in managing the maritime security information
In support of the development of the MMCC zone F (Accra, Ghana), the MMCC director, Commander Kanguli Benning, requested the GoGIN project to provide a specific maritime security information to the MMCC staff and representatives of Ghanaian maritime agencies (MMCC:...
Maritime safety: President Buhari assents to anti-piracy bill
(NIMASA, 3 July 2019) – President Muhammadu Buhari has given his assent to the Suppression of Piracy and other Maritime Offences Bill, 2019, in an unprecedented move billed to bring a dramatic improvement in security on the country’s territorial waters and...
CRESMAO supported in its rise of power
The CRESMAO (Regional Center for Maritime Security of West Africa) based in Abidjan is one of the two regional centers for maritime security defined by the architecture of Yaoundé; it is under the authority of ECOWAS (Economic Commission of West African States)....
GoGIN at the G7++ FOGG in Brussels
Co-chaired in 2019 by France and Ghana, the G7 ++ (Friends of the Gulf of Guinea) met in Brussels on July 2, in a technical body to prepare for its plenary session in November. On this occasion, the organizing countries of the meeting had broadened the traditional...
Senegal Seizes over 750 Kilos of Cocaine Set for Europe
Senegal seized 798 kilos of cocaine Sunday on a ship traveling from Brazil, hidden inside 15 cars with final destinations that included Europe, in the latest large drug seizure off the West African coast this year. The cocaine was packed in travel bags in the cars on...
G7++ Group of Friends of the Gulf of Guinea meets in Brussels
France and Ghana, with the support of the European Commission and the European External Action Service, are organizing a technical meeting on 2 July in the framework of the G7 ++ Group of Friends of the Gulf of Guinea. Press release Ministry of Army, 27 June 2019 G7++...
“Saiko” : How illegalfishing destroys Ghana’s fisheries
An EJF report: Along Ghana’s 330 mile coastline, the ocean provides food and income for millions of people. In the last half-century, industrial vessels have flocked to these waters, trawling the sea for fish to export overseas. Now an illegal practice, known locally...
Senegal welcomes the GoGIN advisory committee
The GoGIN Project Advisory Committee (GPAC) met in Dakar on 9-10 April 2019. More than 70 participants representing the maritime centres of the 19 coastal countries of ECOWAS, ECCAS and CGG, shared progress and discussed priorities for the next two years of the GoGIN...
Mission for legal assessments in Gambia and Guinea
Marta Ribeiro, legal expert of the GoGIN project, conducted two missions for legal assessment, one in Gambia and the other in Guinea, in close collaboration with the UNODC (represented by Juge Ousmane Diouf), the ICC (represented by Cdr Moses Elijah) and the CRESMAO...
Fight against IUU fishing workshop in Congo
From 20 to 23 May 2019, GoGIN and CRESMAC, in collaboration with the Regional Commission for Fisheries of the Gulf of Guinea (COREP) and the NGOs Renatura and WCS, organized a workshop in Pointe-Noire on the fight against illegal, unreported, unregulated fishing (IUU...