The YARIS Platform Helps Enhance Maritime Surveillance in Guinea
At the request of Guinea’s Maritime Prefecture, a training session on maritime surveillance and crisis management was coordinated by GoGIN and CRESMAC experts from 12 to 16 December 2022. Training on crisis management The event was attended by 17 operational...
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...
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...
CRESMAC strengthened in its analysis of the maritime situation
From 3 to 15 December 2021, the staff of CRESMAC (Regional Maritime Security Center for Central Africa) was trained in maritime domain awareness by three trainers from the GoGIN project. Designed upon the request of CRESMAC’s director, Captain Pierre Midianzou,...
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...
Thomas Tarrade, a warm and enthusiastic colleague
Thomas Tarrade, who worked on the GoGIN project, passed away on May 25th 2020, at his home in l’Ariège, after 18 months of courageously battling cancer surrounded by his three children and wife, Sameera. We deeply regret our heartly and enthusiastic college who knew,...
African Maritime Security Forum in Dakar
The Africa Maritime Security Forum was held in Dakar from January 20th-22nd 2020 to celebrate the 45th anniversary of Senegal Navy. About twenty high ranking speakers (Chief of Staff of the Navy of the Guinean Gulf countries and major partner countries) addressed all...
GoGIN amid the Friends of Gulf of Guinea G7++
The annual plenary meeting of the G7++ Friends of the Gulf of Guinea was held in Accra, Ghana on November 5-6 2019. Co-chaired by the deputy-Ministers of Defence of Ghana and France, this meeting gathered more than 200 representatives of 21 countries and 9 regional...
How naval forces can contribute to maritime stability and security?
Bertrand Demez, GoGIN project coordinator, attended the 12th Regional Seapower Symposium, organised by the Italian Navy within the Venice arsenal from October 15th to 18th 2019. The theme was: Navies beyond traditional roles: crewing efforts to project stability and...
GoGIN is invited to the maritime security conference in Nigeria
The 2019 GMSC (Global Maritime Security Conference) took place from the 7 to 9 October 2019 in Abuja, Nigeria. Close to 80 countries and organisations participated in this international conference on maritime security in the Gulf of Guinea organised by the Federal...