YARIS, the tool of the Yaoundé Architecture to strengthen maritime security in the Gulf of Guinea
The full operational capability of YARIS was declared on September 29th, 2020. Since this date, the system is fully available for real operations, and fully meets the pragmatic needs of the Yaoundé Architecture, including its operational organization. YARIS was...
Transmission of piracy alerts in the Gulf of Guinea via #YARIS
On 4 October, a anti-piracy exercise took place between the Beninese and French national Navies and the MDAT-GoG. The YARIS platform was used as a communications and information exchange tool between the different actors. The feedback from this exercise shows that the...
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...
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...
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...