By Tom Clarke, Maritime kidnap for ransom is a crime deeply rooted and geographically concentrated in the Niger Delta. Like other forms of piracy in the region, it is the product of onshore dysfunction and insecurity coupled with a target-rich environment at sea. The vast majority of piracy incidents in the Gulf of Guinea go […]
GoG loses $2bn annually to piracy
June 2013 According to a regional expert from a university in Cameroon, the piracy in the Gulf of Guinea is a big problem– a $2 billion dollar problem, to be exact. Professor Joseph Vincent Ntuda Ebode, of Yaounde II recently spoke at an international symposium held to discuss piracy. The reason, according to him, is that because piracy causes ships […]
African States Join Forces
June 2013 States from Central and West Africa have reached an agreement to create a regional center for coordinating the rise in piracy in the Gulf of Guinea. The recent spate of attacks have become such a problem that they seriously endanger the shipping industry in the Gulf. The Gulf of Guinea hold major oil […]
How Islamist militancy threatens Africa
The recent Islamist militant threats in West Africa and Northern Africa aren’t going away any time soon, despite recent gains won by western militaries in the region. Recent attacks in the region — including suicide bombings in Niger and an attack on an Algerian gas plant — have raised red flags about the stability of […]
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