ECOWAS – EU: Maritime safety, the SWAIMS project engages civil society to play its role
[Source : Eco-Bénin] The oceans are essential to the balance of our ecosystem and our survival on earth. They play a crucial role in the planet’s climate system and are the main source of protein for more than 3 billion people. Around these issues, the Gulf of...
YARIS Rollout: Context and Perspectives
The origin of YARIS The YARIS platform was deigned to ensure information’s fusion and sharing as well as coordination of operations between the maritime centres of the Yaoundé Architecture. In 2020 the focus was on project development and testing and training...
Enhanced Maritime Surveillance in Offshore Gambia
[Banjul 2 July 2021] The Minister of Defence of the Republic of the Gambia, H. E. Amb. Sheik Omar Faye chaired the closing ceremony of the YARIS platform (Yaoundé Architecture Regional Information System) advanced training programme, in the presence of the EU...
Senegal: Maritime surveillance reinforced thanks to the YARIS platform
[Dakar, 11 June 2021] CV Sow, Head of the Operations Division of the Senegalese Navy brought the YARIS (Yaoundé Architecture Regional Information System) advanced training to an end, in the presence of the representative of the European Delegation to Senegal, Ilaria...
The YARIS platform used during the Megalops exercise
[Gabon, 2 June 2021] On the initiative of the CRESMAC director, the training platform of YARIS was used for the first time on 2 June 2021 as part of the MEGALOPS exercise, organised by the French Elements in Gabon (EFG). This initiative allowed the users concerned to...
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
[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
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...
Gulf of Guinea maritime centres trained on the IT management of the YARIS platform
La plateforme YARIS a été conçue comme un outil de connaissance et de partage de la situation maritime permettant à la fois de mieux appréhender ce qui se passe en mer, et de coordonner des opérations en situation de routine ou de crise. Le personnel opérationnel des...
Training on the YARIS platform to facilitate maritime surveillance off Cameroon and neighbouring countries
[Douala, 23 April 2021] The Head of Maritime Multinational Coordination Centre (MMCC) zone D will chair the closing ceremony of the YARIS (Yaoundé Architecture Regional Information System) advanced training programme, held at the seat of MMCC D, in Douala, 23 April...
Cameroon coastal surveillance centres ready to use YARIS information sharing platform
[Douala 9 April 2021] The Head of the Transmission-Electronics-Computing Office of the Cameroonian Navy Staff chaired the closing ceremony of the YARIS platform (Yaoundé Architecture Regional Information System) advanced training programme, held at the seat of COSCO...
Gabon maritime centres ready to use YARIS for maritime security operations
[Libreville, 9 April 2021] The Deputy Chief of Staff of the Gabonese Navy, LCdr Charles Bekale, in the presence of the representative from the European Union Delegation to Gabon, will chair the closing ceremony of the YARIS platform (Yaoundé Architecture Regional...
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...
Maritime centres in Ghana and Gambia trained on the YARIS information sharing platform
Maritime operations centres are designed to monitor their area of responsability and conduct operations at sea required by any given situation. In order to carry out this mission they must coordinate with other operations centres in their area, or in adjacent areas....
Why the EU needs to be a global maritime security provider?
[Source: EEAS] 27/01/2021 – On 25 January we launched the first pilot of the new Coordinated Maritime Presences (CMP) concept in the Gulf of Guinea off the coast of West Africa. In addition to our existing naval operations in the Mediterranean and in the Western...
The YARIS platform is deployed in the Gulf of Guinea
The implementation of YARIS, maritime information sharing platform for the Gulf of Guinea, is starting its dissemination phase among users of the Yaoundé architecture. A training programme has been defined in agreement with the maritime centers as well as certain high...
MICA Center annual report on worldwide maritime piracy and robbery
For the second consecutive year, the Maritime Information Cooperation & Awareness Center (MICA Center) publishes an annual review of maritime piracy and robbery events. This report identifies and characterises the events recorded in 2020 that affect maritime...
Friends of the Gulf of Guinea examine how to improve maritime security
The G7 Group of Friends of the Gulf of Guinea (G7++ FoGG) plenary session took place virtually from December 1 to 3, 2020, under the co-presidency of Gabon and the USA (online video). It brought together more than 80 participants from the Gulf of Guinea including...
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...
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,...
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...
A pool of trainers introduced to TESS, the online learning management system of the Yaoundé Architecture
From May 11th to 14th, about twenty participants (GoGIN team, ICC, CRESMAO, CRESMAC and ARSTM representatives) have been introduced and trained on the initial version of the online learning management system TESS. The session was conducted by Edouardo Perdido from the...