Yaris ownership and management transfert to Gulf of Guinea : Technical Workshop
In September 2024, a crucial technical meeting took place in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, involving representatives from the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS), the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), and the Gulf of Guinea...
Launch of the “Safe Domain III” operation
On Monday, 5 August 2024, the launch of the operation “Safe Domain III”, for the Multinational Maritime Coordination Centre (MMC) in the ECOWAS area covering Togo, Nigeria and Benin, was held in Cotonou. The YARIS system is one of the platforms selected by the...
Guinea’s Maritime Prefecture in the YARIS 2.0 era
Invited by the Maritime Prefecture of Guinea, represented by Colonel Sow, Expertise France through GoGIN II, the project that promotes the YARIS platform and financed by the European Union, organised a training workshop on the latest version of the platform known as...
Technology and maritime security in Africa: Opportunities and challenges in Gulf of Guinea
[Source : Science Direct] Maritime security threats undermine safety and security at sea and, in turn, coastal states’ efforts to harness the resources in their maritime domain. This assertion is true for coastal states and Small Island Developing States (SIDS) on...
YARIS and SKYLIGHT join forces to better monitor the sea
Combating illicit activities at sea is crucial for ensuring a peaceful and sustainable use of marine resources. But how can governments and nongovernmental organisations identify illegal fishing, drug trafficking, bunkering, and other activities among the thousands of...
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...
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,...