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,...
YARIS connects all the participating centres of the Grand African Nemo exercise (GANO 22)
The YARIS platform was implemented for the second time throughout the Gulf of Guinea as part of the annual GANO 22 exercise, organised by the French Navy, CRESMAO and CRESMAC, from 11 to 16 October 2022. The exercise management team (DIREX) was based at CRESMAO, in...
Ghana’s maritime stakeholders connect to YARIS
On 15 July 2022, the Deputy Director General in charge of Operations at the Ghana Maritime Authority (GMA), Mr. Daniel Appianin, congratulated the 28 participants of the 2-week YARIS training held in Accra. He stated that the operational centres will be connected to...
The YARIS national network connects the maritime agencies of Guinea-Bissau
[Bissau, 6 May 2022]. The Minister of Defense Nacional, Lieutenant General Sandji Fati, co-chaired the closing ceremony of the YARIS (Yaoundé Architecture Regional Information System) training programme, with the European Union Ambassador, Sonia Neto, in presence of...
Maritime Cooperation: Nigeria, European Union and Member States wish to strengthen their partnership
[Source: EU Delegation to Nigeria and ECOWAS] Top Nigerian naval and government officials met with their European Union counterparts in Lagos on April 7 to solidify a partnership aimed at tightening the security around the Gulf of Guinea, one of the world’s most...
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...
UNODC conducts a mock trial in Congo using YARIS for evidence
The week of December 6th, UNODC conducted a maritime exercise in Pointe Noire, Republic of the Congo, as part of its Global Maritime Crime Programme (GMCP), which started with the implementation of the operational chain of the Yaoundé Architecture and ended with a...
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...
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...
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...