CMR Newsletter#5 January-April 2021: GoGIN

Benin, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Cooperation, Cote d'Ivoire, COVID19, CRIMSON, ECCAS, ECOWAS, Ghana, GoGIN, Gulf of Guinea, Information sharing, maritime security, Newsletters, Senegal, Training

Presentation of YARIS to partners and upcoming activities for 2021 Since the beginning of January, the GoGIN team has been entirely focused on the training activities on the YARIS platform for the maritime centres in the Gulf of Guinea, organising remote introductory training sessions on the use of the system. In February, the team held…

Increase of piracy activities in the Gulf of Guinea: first attack in 2019 off the coasts of Benin

Articles, Benin, Ghana, Gulf of Guinea, maritime security, Niger Delta, Nigeria, Piracy and armed robbery

On 15 December, a merchant vessel was attacked off the city of Brass, located in the southern Nigerian state of Bayelsa. In 2018, Nigeria experienced an increase in piracy attacks, particularly off the Niger Delta, source to offshore oil production. The latest report of the International Maritime Bureau (IMB) recorded that of the 57 attacks…

GoGIN in the News – Corymbe: le patrouilleur de haute mer LV Le Hénaff aux côtés de la marine togolaise

Articles, Benin, Crisis Response Training, GoGIN, Gulf of Guinea, Information sharing, Togo, Training

Le premier exercice de GoGIN a débuté avec la marine béninoise sous le regard des instructeurs du projet avant de se poursuivre avec la marine togolaise, supervisé par les instructeurs du GoGIN, mais également par les marins du LV Le Hénaff. Le scénario de l’exercice met en scène un bâtiment de commerce pris par des pirates et transitant…