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...
Spanish Navy surveillance centre trained to use YARIS
Six operators from COVAM (Spanish Navy Maritime Surveillance and Security Centre) were trained on the YARIS platform on 16 and 17 February 2023, in Cartagena (Spain). The YARIS trainer of the European project GoGIN+, Diego Ron, presented all the functionalities of...
CRESMAO strengthens its capacity to analyse maritime information via YARIS
From January 17 to 19, 2023, a capacity-building workshop on the analysis of information and maritime surveillance via the YARIS platform (Yaounde Architecture Regional Information System) was held at CRESMAO headquarters in Abidjan. The workshop was facilitated by...
The YARIS Platform Helps Enhance Maritime Surveillance in Guinea
At the request of Guinea’s Maritime Prefecture, a training session on maritime surveillance and crisis management was coordinated by GoGIN and CRESMAC experts from 12 to 16 December 2022. Training on crisis management The event was attended by 17 operational...
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...
Benin strengthens its maritime surveillance teams
As part of the support provided by the French Navy to the Beninese Navy, two GoGIN instructors trained eight signal station watchkeepers to use the YARIS platform, from 5 to 9 December 2022, in Cotonou. To ensure the surveillance of its coasts, the Beninese Navy has...
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...
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...
National Training on YARIS
The full operational capability of YARIS was achieved on 29 September 2020. Since then, the system is completely available for real operations and fully meets the pragmatic needs of the Yaoundé architecture, including its operational organisation. More on YARIS The...
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...