The Yaoundé Architecture strengthens its pool of YARIS trainers

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

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...
Effective cooperation during pirate attacks, thanks to YARIS

Effective cooperation during pirate attacks, thanks to YARIS

In the framework of the fight against maritime insecurity and the response to an event, access to knowledge of the maritime domain is crucial, as well as the sharing of information to prompt the cooperation of the authorities in crisis situations. The YARIS platform...
Spanish Navy surveillance centre trained to use YARIS

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...
EU supports MMCC Zone F with monitoring equipment

EU supports MMCC Zone F with monitoring equipment

[Source : Ghanaian Times] The European Union (EU), through the Support to West Africa Integrated Maritime Security (SWAIMS), has donated monitoring equipment to the Multinational Maritime Coor­dination Centre (MMCC) Zone F in Accra on Wednesday. The donation is to...
MICA Center Annual Report 2022 is out!

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...
An evaluation of the Yaoundé Architecture, by GoGMI

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,...
Understanding YARIS: Interview by GoGMI

Understanding YARIS: Interview by GoGMI

Discover the interview conducted by Stéphanie Schandorf, Associate Director at the Gulf of Guinea Maritime Institute (GoGMI) where Gilles Chehab, Head of Capacity Building of GoGIN, presents the interest of YARIS for information sharing in the framework of the Yaoundé...