Training : Crisis response in Cape Verde
The GoGIN team organised a complete crisis management exercise in Cape Verde from 4 to 12 December 2019 in collaboration with the coast guard of Cape Verde. This first collaboration with the Cape Verde authorities enabled work with thirty participants from 8...
Ghana : Towards improved maritime domain awareness
A course on Maritime Domaine Awareness (MDA) was given within the premises of the multinational coordination centre- zone F (MMCC zone F) in Accra from November 16th-30th, 2019. Led by GoGIN and carried out in close collaboration with the ICC and CRESMAO training...
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...
Accreditation of pool of specialists to secure the waters of the Gulf of Guinea
Abidjan, 23 October 2019 – Twenty seven professionals from the maritime sector from 9 countries in the Gulf of Guinea have recently successfully completed a 2 month training programme in maritime safety and security. The training was delivered by the ISMI...
Cameroon centres now equipped to use the information sharing system YARIS
To prepare the installation of the forthcoming information sharing system YARIS, the GoGIN project proceeded with equipment transfer within the different maritime security centres located in Cameroon, dedicated to maritime data visualisation and analysis. Christophe...
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...
GoGIN supports the Directors of Yaounde Architecture regional centres
The coordinator Bertrand Demez and two regional managers, Eric Glotin and Christophe Girin, attended the Directors meeting of the 3 regional centres of Yaoundé Architecture held at CRESMAO in Abidjan October 3rd and 4th, 2019. The ICC, CRESMAO and CRESMAC play a...
Guinean authorities determined to secure the governance of their maritime space
With the extension of the legal evaluation mission carried out in Guinea in May 2019, a team from the GoGIN project and centres from the Yaoundé Architecture went to Conakry from 22 to 27 September 2019 to respond to the maritime prefecture’s proposals. The GoGIN team...
Gambia: legal assessment mission
Marta Ribeiro, GoGIN legal expert, in association with Ousmane Diouf, UNODC legal expert seconded to CRESMAO, presented the preliminary report on the analysis of national legislation related to the implementation of international conventions applicable to crimes at...