The European GoGIN+ project in nutshell
Discover the outlines of the GoGIN+ project and its flagship product, the YARIS platform in this trilingual leaflet (French, English, Portuguese). Read the leaflet. Download the printable version of the leaflet.
Grand African Nemo 2022 will use YARIS
YARIS used as of the preparation of the GANo 22 maritime exercise The initial planning conference (IPC) of the major Grand African Nemo 22 (GANo22) exercise was held on 23 March 2022, under the coordination of the French Navy and more precisely of CECLANT (Atlantic...
Pirates of the Gulf of Guinea: A Cost Analysis for Coastal States
[Source: Stable Seas] Pirate groups concentrated in the Niger Delta earn perhaps $5 million of direct income per year through theft and hostage-taking. The majority of this income—nearly $4 million per year—is stolen and extorted from non-African entities...
YARIS, the tool of the Yaoundé Architecture to strengthen maritime security in the Gulf of Guinea
The full operational capability of YARIS was declared on September 29th, 2020. Since this date, the system is fully available for real operations, and fully meets the pragmatic needs of the Yaoundé Architecture, including its operational organization. YARIS was...
Transmission of piracy alerts in the Gulf of Guinea via #YARIS
On 4 October, a anti-piracy exercise took place between the Beninese and French national Navies and the MDAT-GoG. The YARIS platform was used as a communications and information exchange tool between the different actors. The feedback from this exercise shows that the...
Gulf of Guinea maritime centres trained on the IT management of the YARIS platform
La plateforme YARIS a été conçue comme un outil de connaissance et de partage de la situation maritime permettant à la fois de mieux appréhender ce qui se passe en mer, et de coordonner des opérations en situation de routine ou de crise. Le personnel opérationnel des...
Cameroon coastal surveillance centres ready to use YARIS information sharing platform
[Douala 9 April 2021] The Head of the Transmission-Electronics-Computing Office of the Cameroonian Navy Staff chaired the closing ceremony of the YARIS platform (Yaoundé Architecture Regional Information System) advanced training programme, held at the seat of COSCO...
Gabon maritime centres ready to use YARIS for maritime security operations
[Libreville, 9 April 2021] The Deputy Chief of Staff of the Gabonese Navy, LCdr Charles Bekale, in the presence of the representative from the European Union Delegation to Gabon, will chair the closing ceremony of the YARIS platform (Yaoundé Architecture Regional...
Maritime centres in Ghana and Gambia trained on the YARIS information sharing platform
Maritime operations centres are designed to monitor their area of responsability and conduct operations at sea required by any given situation. In order to carry out this mission they must coordinate with other operations centres in their area, or in adjacent areas....
Why the EU needs to be a global maritime security provider?
[Source: EEAS] 27/01/2021 – On 25 January we launched the first pilot of the new Coordinated Maritime Presences (CMP) concept in the Gulf of Guinea off the coast of West Africa. In addition to our existing naval operations in the Mediterranean and in the Western...