G7++ Friends of the Gulf of Guinea (FoGG) Plenary Session in Abidjan On 1 and 2 December, CRIMSON attended the plenary session of the G7++ Friends of the Gulf of Guinea held in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. For the first time, civil society organisations were also invited to the plenary. Illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (IUU)…
Addressing maritime safety and security threats through IORIS On 6 and 7 December, more than 80 senior officials from over 25 countries from across the Indo Pacific met in Mahé, to discuss how the Indo – Pacific Regional Information Sharing Platform (IORIS) could be used to exchange information and respond effectively to maritime security threats…
YARIS: a monitoring tool, but also a means for analysis Permanent surveillance of the seas is a prerequisite for the peaceful and sustainable use of marine and maritime resources. Such surveillance is a necessary condition for conducting targeted maritime policing operations in cases of suspected illegal or criminal activities. To be truly effective, however, it…
WeCAPS/WMU/Enabel Workshop on legal framework analysis of port security and safety A World Maritime University (WMU) and Enabel delegation, in conjunction with the European Union-funded Western and Central Africa Port Security (WeCAPS) project, delivered workshops in Cameroon, Ivory Coast, and Senegal. These workshops that were conducted by WMU and Enabel, as the culmination of the…
