Maritime operators from Guinea trained on YARIS platform

Maritime operators from Guinea trained on YARIS platform

[Conakry, 4 juin 2021] Le Directeur de cabinet du Ministre de la Défense nationale a présidé la cérémonie de clôture de la formation avancée à l’utilisation de la plateforme YARIS (Yaoundé Architecture Regional Information System), à l’hôtel Noom le 4 juin à 10...
Enhanced Maritime Surveillance in Offshore Benin

Enhanced Maritime Surveillance in Offshore Benin

[Cotonou, 21 May 2021] The Chief of Army Staff will inaugurate the operations room of the National Authority for Coordinating State Action at Sea (ANCAEM) and will preside over the closing ceremony for the YARIS  (Yaoundé Architecture Regional Information System)...
Enhanced Maritime Surveillance in Offshore Ivory Coast

Enhanced Maritime Surveillance in Offshore Ivory Coast

Ivory Coast has established a coordinated organisation to oversee State action at sea, under the oversight of SEPCIM (Secrétariat Permanent du Comité Interministériel de l’Action de l’Etat en Mer). At an operational level, maritime surveillance and operations are...
Capacity Building Workshop on YARIS opens at ECOWAS MMCC zone F, Accra

Capacity Building Workshop on YARIS opens at ECOWAS MMCC zone F, Accra

[Accra, 18 February 2021] The Director General, Ghana Maritime Authority, Mr Thomas Kofi Alonsi, in the presence of a number of dignitaries from the national and international maritime community and industry will open a two-week EU funded capacity building workshop on...
Africa’s prosperity is tied to its oceans and seas

Africa’s prosperity is tied to its oceans and seas

[Source: ISS Africa] A major strength of Africa’s 2016 Lomé Charter on maritime security and development is its recognition that no country can singlehandedly prevent maritime threats or sustainably develop its maritime domain. The charter calls on neighbouring states...
YARIS: the information sharing platform of the Yaoundé Architecture

YARIS: the information sharing platform of the Yaoundé Architecture

Download the YARIS factsheet The YARIS platform will become the information sharing tool amongst the 27 maritime centres of the Yaoundé Architecture, their partners and all stakeholders involved within 6 000 km off the coast. Conceived primarily as a maritime...
Countering Gulf of Guinea Piracy Towards 2025

Countering Gulf of Guinea Piracy Towards 2025

[Source: Maritime Executive] By François Morizur. In a recent article, I tried to foresee the form that piracy in the Gulf of Guinea could take over the next few years. Now, I propose what responses could counter these threats. Developing maritime activities along...