Effective cooperation during pirate attacks, thanks to YARIS

Effective cooperation during pirate attacks, thanks to YARIS

25 Apr 2023

In the framework of the fight against maritime insecurity and the response to an event, access to knowledge of the maritime domain is crucial, as well as the sharing of information to prompt the cooperation of the authorities in crisis situations. The YARIS platform...
MICA Center Annual Report 2022 is out!

MICA Center Annual Report 2022 is out!

11 Jan 2023

[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...
Pirates of the Gulf of Guinea: A Cost Analysis for Coastal States

Pirates of the Gulf of Guinea: A Cost Analysis for Coastal States

21 Dec 2021

[Source: Stable Seas] Pirate groups concentrated in the Niger Delta earn perhaps $5 million of direct income per year through theft and hostage-taking. The majority of this income—nearly $4 million per year—is stolen and extorted from non-African entities...
Transmission of piracy alerts in the Gulf of Guinea via #YARIS

Transmission of piracy alerts in the Gulf of Guinea via #YARIS

7 Oct 2021

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...
Pirates of the Niger Delta: between brown and blue waters

Pirates of the Niger Delta: between brown and blue waters

21 Sep 2021

[Source: UNODC] A study on maritime piracy has been carried out by the Global Maritime Crime Programme of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). The study was funded by the Government of Denmark through the Danish Maritime Security Programme for the...
Countering Gulf of Guinea Piracy Towards 2025

Countering Gulf of Guinea Piracy Towards 2025

4 May 2020

[Source: Maritime Executive] By François Morizur. In a recent article, I tried to foresee the form that piracy in the Gulf of Guinea could take over the next few years. Now, I propose what responses could counter these threats. Developing maritime activities along...
Stable Seas: Gulf of Guinea

Stable Seas: Gulf of Guinea

29 Apr 2020

[Source: StableSeas report] Stable Seas: Gulf of Guinea explores the connections between maritime governance themes and security challenges, drawing on interviews conducted with experts and practitioners in seven countries across the region. Maritime insecurity...
BMP West Africa : A navigation guide to improve browser safety

BMP West Africa : A navigation guide to improve browser safety

28 Apr 2020

[Source: ICS] The maritime security situation off the West Coast of Africa is complex and dynamic. BMP – West Africa (WA) has been produced to help ships and seafarers avoid becoming the victims of maritime security incidents in these waters. This publication aims to...
Togo : lessons learned from the arrest of G-Dona1 pirates

Togo : lessons learned from the arrest of G-Dona1 pirates

20 Sep 2019

The capacity of the components of the Yaoundé Architecture (YA), primarily the States, to bring a stop to the most criminal actions, is part of the priorities of all actors and partners. Reminder of events: a small oil tanker, the G Dona 1, was seized by pirates...
Nigeria hosts the global maritime security conference

Nigeria hosts the global maritime security conference

13 Sep 2019

The maritime domain of the Gulf of Guinea is of major geostrategic, economic and social importance. The insecurity is still very strong and endangers the economies and societies of the region. With this in mind, the Nigerian authorities have decided to organize a...