MAY 2, 2017 – Pirate networks responsible for the original Somali piracy crisis have sustained themselves through small-scale attacks and involvement in an array of maritime crimes, according to Oceans…
ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Armed attacks on ships in West African waters nearly doubled in 2016, with pirates increasingly focused on kidnapping their crew for ransom off Nigeria's coast, a report…
Mohamed Farah, 31, of Somalia, was sentenced to life plus 10 years in prison for engaging in piracy and committing other offenses pertaining to the attack on the USS Ashland,…
The Inspector-General of Police Intelligence Response Team, IRT, has arrested 11 kidnap suspects in Port Harcourt. The suspects include Anthony Pepple, who is also known as “Urban Gorilla” and a…
General Tom Waldhauser, head of the U.S. military’s Africa Command, has warned that the threat of piracy off the coast of Somalia is rising. Speaking to the Wall Street Journal,…
U.S. officials are reluctant to label a recent spike in piracy off the waters of Somalia as a trend. "We're not ready to say there is a trend there yet,…
MARAN: It has been almost a month since Abu Sayyaf kidnap victim, Mohd Ridzuan Ismail, was freed after spending more than eight months in captivity, but the 33-year-old is struggling…
On 19 Apr morning hours, pirates boarded an unnamed "offshore tug" in the Gulf of Guinea and kidnapped eight crewmembers. According to the ICC International Maritime Bureau's Piracy Reporting Centre, the…
On Tuesday morning, the Philippine Coast Guard foiled an attempted pirate attack on the cargo vessel Doña Anabelle. The attempted boarding occurred off Siocon, Zamboanga del Norte – over 50 nm…
BETWEEN 2008 and 2011, the waters off the coast of Somalia were the most treacherous shipping lanes in the world. More than 700 attacks on vessels took place in this…
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,…
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…