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The 2023 Anambra ambush was a violent attack on a United States consular convoy in the town of Atani, [3] in Southeastern Nigeria. Several unidentified assailants opened fire on the convoy as it was traveling along a road, then setting the corpses of the dead and their vehicles on fire.
A Nigerian police gunboat escorting an oil barge owned by Eni came under fire from a group of pirates lying in wait on the Barbara River near Nembe. All 3 police officers were killed before being stripped of their rifles, uniforms, and gunboat. The pirates then took the 6 man oil crew hostage before fleeing the scene in both boats. Nigeria: unknown
On April 7, the Haitian National Police stormed the seized freighter, ensuing in a five-hour gun battle with the gangs, [25] in which two police officers were injured and several of the two gang's members turned pirate were killed. [24] The ship, owned by U.S. shipping company Claude and Magalie, [26] [27] was recovered by the Haitian police ...
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Five workers were killed and two others presumed dead in the blast on the Trinity Spirit, a rusting converted oil […] The post Deadly explosion off Nigeria points to threat posed by aging oil ...
The US Navy defeated a complex attack launched by the Houthis on Monday that saw the rebels fire several missiles and drones at two American warships off the coast of Yemen, a Pentagon ...
Piracy kidnappings occur during piracy, when people are kidnapped by pirates or taken hostage.Article 1 of the United Nations International Convention against the Taking of Hostages defines a hostage-taker as "any person who seizes or detains and threatens to kill, to injure, or to continue to detain another person (hereinafter referred to as the 'hostage') in order to compel a third party ...
ABUJA/MAIDUGURI (Reuters) -Nigerian fisherman Modu Umar has hardly slept for two weeks, torn between staying in his Baga community or fleeing after Islamist militants warned residents to leave ...