Guinea’s Maritime Prefecture in the YARIS 2.0 era

Guinea’s Maritime Prefecture in the YARIS 2.0 era

Invited by the Maritime Prefecture of Guinea, represented by Colonel Sow, Expertise France through GoGIN II, the project that promotes the YARIS platform and financed by the European Union, organised a training workshop on the latest version of the platform known as...
YARIS and SKYLIGHT join forces to better monitor the sea

YARIS and SKYLIGHT join forces to better monitor the sea

Combating illicit activities at sea is crucial for ensuring a peaceful and sustainable use of marine resources. But how can governments and nongovernmental organisations identify illegal fishing, drug trafficking, bunkering, and other activities among the thousands of...
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...
YARIS: a monitoring tool but also a means for analysis

YARIS: a monitoring tool but also a means for analysis

Permanent surveillance of the seas is a prerequisite for the peaceful and sustainable utilisation of the marine and maritime resources. Such surveillance is a necessary condition for conducting targeted maritime policing operations in cases of suspected illegal or...
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,...
GoGIN co-facilitates innovative training on board the PHA Tonnerre

GoGIN co-facilitates innovative training on board the PHA Tonnerre

From 7 to 19 November, GoGIN participated in a training designed and provided by the French Navy on board the Landing Helicopter Dock Tonnerre. This pilot training brought together 10 participants from the maritime operations centres (MOCs) of Benin, Côte d’Ivoire,...
Grand African NEMO Makes Waves In Gulf Of Guinea

Grand African NEMO Makes Waves In Gulf Of Guinea

[Source: ADF Africa Defense Forum] More than 20 nations recently completed the Grand African Navy Exercise for Maritime Operations (NEMO) 2022, an annual event led by the French Navy. The first phase focused on at-sea skills such as boarding vessels to combat illegal...
What is IUU fishing?

What is IUU fishing?

[Source: Maritimafrica] IUU fishing, for “ Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated “ is a term used for over fifteen years, by international organisms, national governments, media, Non-Governmental Organizations, etc. This term was used for the first time in 1997 at the...
The European GoGIN+ project in nutshell

The European GoGIN+ project in nutshell

Discover the outlines of the GoGIN+ project and its flagship product, the YARIS platform in this trilingual leaflet (French, English, Portuguese). Read the leaflet. Download the printable version of the leaflet.
Grand African Nemo 2022 will use YARIS

Grand African Nemo 2022 will use YARIS

YARIS used as of the preparation of the GANo 22 maritime exercise The initial planning conference (IPC) of the major Grand African Nemo 22 (GANo22) exercise was held on 23 March 2022, under the coordination of the French Navy and more precisely of CECLANT (Atlantic...