Initially expected for April 2025, the completion of the GUlfofGuinea Interregional Network project, known as “GoGIN Il”, risks being postponed by several months. Launched in May 2023, this initiative led by Expertise France (structure attached to the French Development Agency) aims to ensure the transfer of Yaris (for Yaounde Architecture Regional Information System), a surveillance and communication platform secured by the Union European Union (EU), for the benefit of the navies of around twenty West African states.
Members of the Yaoundé Architecture, which oversees nearly thirty centers specializing in maritime security, from Senegal to Angola, these fleets have already had the opportunity to test Yaris during joint exercises with their Western counterparts. Like the Grand African NEMO (for Navy Exercise Maritime Operations), which has brought together the region’s naval forces every year since 2013 with the support of France (AI, 09/07(24).
Brussels is waiting for the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the Economic Community of Central African States (ECOWAS), of which most of the countries concerned are members, to propose plans to finance the operation of the platform, once the transfer has been carried out The two regional organizations must also agree on the final location of the Yaris servers Currently stored in Portugal, they are intended to be moved to Africa to guarantee the sovereignty of the States in the area. the data collected and exchanged Among the countries likely to host them are Cameroon and Nigeria When contacted, the representatives of the Yaris project did not respond to our requests.