Project news
Strengthening Maritime Security: GOGIN II’s Role in FCWC’s Training Workshop
From September 11 to 13, 2024, the Fisheries Committee for the West Central Gulf of Guinea (FCWC/CPCO) hosted a pivotal Regional Patrol Support Training Workshop in Tema, Ghana. This event gathered participants from the Fisheries Monitoring, Control and Surveillance...
YARIS 2.0 Training: Towards the Transfer of Ownership to Maritime Stakeholders in the Gulf of Guinea Region
In line with the strategy to transfer ownership of the YARIS platform to the region, a YARIS 2.0 training session was held from September 3 to 5 in Lomé. The event brought together maritime stakeholders from Zone E, including representatives from national centers and...
A strategic meeting with the director of the CIC to consolidate the partnership with Yaoundé Architecture as part of the transfer of ownership to the region.
On 3 September 2024, Sam Megwa , Strategic Director of the EU GOGIN project, and Francois Marty, YARIS Expert and Trainer, were warmly received by Capt. Emmanuel Bell Bell, Head of Information Management and Communication at the INTER-REGIONAL COORDINATION CENTRE #ICC...
Maritime domain news
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,...
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,...
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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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