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...
The Yaoundé Architecture strengthens its pool of YARIS trainers
[Abidjan-ARSTM, 15 December 2023] The Permanent Secretary for State Action at Sea, represented by Colonel AKE Josée Nicole, chaired the closing ceremony of the train of trainers session in the use of YARIS (Yaoundé Architecture Regional Information System), in the...
Equatorial Guinea centres trained at YARIS
[Malabo, 20 to 24 November 2023] The coordination of maritime safety and security is essential to monitor and combat any illegal activity at sea (suspicious vessels, armed attacks, acts of piracy, pollution, illegal fishing, etc.). In Equatorial Guinea, this is...
Spanish Navy surveillance centre trained to use YARIS
Six operators from COVAM (Spanish Navy Maritime Surveillance and Security Centre) were trained on the YARIS platform on 16 and 17 February 2023, in Cartagena (Spain). The YARIS trainer of the European project GoGIN+, Diego Ron, presented all the functionalities of...
Benin strengthens its maritime surveillance teams
As part of the support provided by the French Navy to the Beninese Navy, two GoGIN instructors trained eight signal station watchkeepers to use the YARIS platform, from 5 to 9 December 2022, in Cotonou. To ensure the surveillance of its coasts, the Beninese Navy has...
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,...
The YARIS national network connects the maritime agencies of São Tomé e Príncipe
[São Tomé, 16 September 2022], Captain Armindo Pinho da Fonseca e Silva Rodrigues, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Santomean Army, chaired the closing ceremony of the YARIS (Yaoundé Architecture Regional Information System) user training programme, in the presence of the...
Lessons learnt by the YARIS trainers in Paris
The team of YARIS trainers shared lessons learnt, discussed the strengths and weaknesses of the YARIS platform and agreed on a new learning approach during a workshop in Paris from 20 to 24 June 2022. A look back over a week of dialogue and exchange Training in the...