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The most organised piracy activities in the Gulf of Guinea takes place in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] A large number of both non-state and formal state actors are involved in a piracy operation, indicating a vast social network. [ 2 ]
Piracy in the Gulf of Guinea affects a number of countries in West Africa as well as the wider international community. By 2011, it had become an issue of global concern. [1] [2] Pirates in the Gulf of Guinea are often part of heavily armed criminal enterprises, who employ violent methods to steal oil cargo. [3]
Though, it should only be considered as a phase of the longer history of piracy in West Africa – spanning form the slave trade, to the palm oil trade, and now the oil business. [20] Certainly, the exploration and production of oil, and the following boom of foreign trade, changed the piracy in West Africa. [20]
In the resolution, the 15-member council "condemns all acts of piracy and armed robbery at sea committed off the coast of the states of the Gulf of Guinea." According to reports by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and the UN Department of Political Affairs (DPA), piracy in the Gulf, which borders West African coastal countries from ...
Suspected pirates assemble on the deck of a dhow near waters off of western Malaysia, January 2006.. Piracy in the 21st century (commonly known as modern piracy) has taken place in a number of waters around the globe, including but not limited to, the Gulf of Guinea, Gulf of Aden, [1] Arabian Sea, [2] Strait of Malacca, Sulu and Celebes Seas, Indian Ocean, Bay of Bengal and Falcon Lake.
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 ...
Nigeria: Afikpo, Nigeria () 1 Police Inspector killed, 2 civilians abducted: 2015-11-06: unknown: 2015-11-06: On November 6, 2015 at approximately 8:45am the town of Afikpo in Ebonyi State was invaded by a group of heavily armed pirates in speed boats.
Media Piracy in Emerging Economies is a report released by the Social Science Research Council in 2011. It contends that “high prices for media goods, low incomes, and cheap digital technologies are the main ingredients of global media piracy. If piracy is ubiquitous in most parts of the world, it is because these conditions are ubiquitous ...