Dryad Global reports that a group of pirates had boarded a product tanker in the Gulf of Guinea off the coast of Nigeria and abducted 10 of its crew on Thursday, April ..
Tag: Togo
A group of armed men have kidnapped 20 crewmembers from an oil tanker as it was transiting the Gulf of Guinea in what has been described as the largest high seas ..
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 group of pirates boarded an MSC-operated containership in the Gulf of Guinea off Gabon and abducted seven of its crew on Sunday, March 22. Security consultancy firm ..
A crewmember of a Greek-flagged crude oil tanker who had been abducted by pirates from his vessel in the waters off Togo early last month had died while still in ..
The seas around West Africa remain the world's most dangerous for piracy, the International Maritime Bureau's (IMB) latest report reveals.
UK shipowner Union Maritime has confirmed that an Indian crewmember on one of its vessels who had been kidnapped by pirates in the Gulf of Guinea on December 15, 2019, ..
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 ..
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