2016 witnessed a marked increase in maritime security incidents over the previous year, irrespective of the counting standards. Denmark-based Risk Intelligence counted 119 verified attacks by criminals on all kinds of…
NAIROBI — After being all but stamped out by international naval forces following its late-2000s heyday, piracy has made a sudden return to the Horn of Africa. In the past month,…
Hijacked - UKMTO-IO #12 Date: 8th April 2017 Location: Lat 14.03583333, Long 51.66666667 Ref Warning 001/Apr2017. At 1310 UKMTO received a report from a vessel under ATTACK and possibly BOARDED…
In a recent interview with Voice of America, Abdi Hassan Hussein, the former director of intelligence in Puntland, Somalia, said that several recent piracy events along the coast of Somalia…
A Pakistan-owned cargo vessel, which was carrying food, was hijacked off the coast of central Somalia, Somali officials said on Tuesday, according to the New York Times. The hijacking came…
NAIROBI, Kenya — Are the pirates back? After years of quiet seas, undisturbed voyages and no major attacks, Somali pirates have waylaid four ships in the past month, raising fears…
It was a clear day when the merchant tanker Royal Grace set off from Dubai in the United Arab Emirates for Nigeria with a 22-member multinational crew on February 28,…
As the fight against illegal refineries in Nigeria’s oil-rich Niger Delta region rages on, the country’s petroleum authority has revealed plans to engage illegal workers to increase output. The Nigerian…
Pirates have hijacked an Indian commercial ship off the coast of Somalia, the second such hijacking in two months after a four-year lull. A former director of the anti-piracy agency…
BOSASSO, SOMALIA — Pirates have seized control of a Somali fishing boat to use as a base from which to attack larger ships, police said on Friday, a week after…
THE Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dr Dakuku Peterside has revealed that 31 ports and jetties in Nigeria are currently not yet compliant to…
Somali officials whose forces freed a hijacked oil tanker and its eight Sri Lankan crew said on Sunday that NATO ships must do more to prevent the illegal fishing that…
The EU Naval Force (Somalia) can confirm that fuel tanker Aris 13 and her crew are now en route to a safe port on the north coast of Somalia after…
Somali forces have been sent to try to free the tanker. But locals say the attacks will continue and blame their government in the semi-autonomous Puntland region for granting foreigners…
MARCH 14, 2017 —A NATO anti-piracy mission ended in December. It may have suppressed hijacking of merchant ships. But the ideological root of pirating remains alive and well. Until 2012,…
Somali pirates are suspected of hijacking a Sri Lankan-flagged fuel freighter that sent a distress call, turned off its tracking system and altered course for the Somali coast, a piracy…
