A group of armed men boarded a fishing vessel and abducted six of its 30-strong crew in the Gulf of Guinea off Benin on Wednesday, June 24. The attack on the ..
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Separate pirate attacks on two commercial vessels in the Gulf of Guinea occurred within hours of each other on Thursday, March 5. In the first incident, the Greek-flagged ..
Piracy is a scourge that just will not go away, with the Gulf of Guinea now replacing the coast of Somalia as a “hotspot” that is frightening seafarers tasked with ..
The Nigerian Navy has confirmed that eight sailors who were kidnapped by pirates from a containership in the Gulf of Guinea off the coast of Benin in April 2020 have ..
Security consultancy firm Dryad Global confirms that pirates abducted nine crewmen from an oil tanker in the Gulf of Guinea off Benin on Thursday, February 20. The ..
Togolese President Faure Gnassingbe has stated that the continuing incidents of piracy in the Gulf of Guinea are the result of West African countries’ failure to ..
A containership anchored in the Gulf of Guinea off Benin’s Port of Cotonou was boarded by pirates, who afterward kidnapped eight of the vessel’s crew, on ..
J. J. Ugland has confirmed that the captain and eight other crewmembers of one of its cargo vessels who had been abducted by pirates have been released to Nigerian ..
The seas around West Africa remain the world's most dangerous for piracy, the International Maritime Bureau's (IMB) latest report reveals.
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