Sea Piracy in 2025: Piracy 2.0?

Sea Piracy in 2025: Piracy 2.0?

[Source: Maritime Executive] by François Morizur. Pirates have demonstrated their ability to revise their modes of operation in response to maritime industry behavior and the responses of coastal states. When looking the Gulf of Guinea, confirmed as the main world...
Stable Seas: Gulf of Guinea

Stable Seas: Gulf of Guinea

[Source: StableSeas report] Stable Seas: Gulf of Guinea explores the connections between maritime governance themes and security challenges, drawing on interviews conducted with experts and practitioners in seven countries across the region. Maritime insecurity...
BMP West Africa : A navigation guide to improve browser safety

BMP West Africa : A navigation guide to improve browser safety

[Source: ICS] The maritime security situation off the West Coast of Africa is complex and dynamic. BMP – West Africa (WA) has been produced to help ships and seafarers avoid becoming the victims of maritime security incidents in these waters. This publication aims to...
Follow the live events at sea in the Gulf of Guinea

Follow the live events at sea in the Gulf of Guinea

Maritime Domain Awareness for Trade – Gulf of Guinea (MDAT-GoG) is a cooperation centre between the Royal Navy (UKMTO) and the French Navy (MICA-Center) in support of the Yaounde Process. This centre has been in operation since the 20th June 2016. The primary output...
Worldwide maritime piracy and robbery: report 2019

Worldwide maritime piracy and robbery: report 2019

[Source : MICA Centre] For the first time since its creation in 2016, the Maritime Information Cooperation & Awareness Center (MICA Center) publishes an annual report on worldwide maritime piracy and robbery. This report identifies and describes the incidents...
Nigeria hosts the global maritime security conference

Nigeria hosts the global maritime security conference

The maritime domain of the Gulf of Guinea is of major geostrategic, economic and social importance. The insecurity is still very strong and endangers the economies and societies of the region. With this in mind, the Nigerian authorities have decided to organize a...
Maritime safety: President Buhari assents to anti-piracy bill

Maritime safety: President Buhari assents to anti-piracy bill

(NIMASA, 3 July 2019) – President Muhammadu Buhari has given his assent to the Suppression of Piracy and other Maritime Offences Bill, 2019, in an unprecedented move billed to bring a dramatic improvement in security on the country’s territorial waters and...
Senegal Seizes over 750 Kilos of Cocaine Set for Europe

Senegal Seizes over 750 Kilos of Cocaine Set for Europe

Senegal seized 798 kilos of cocaine Sunday on a ship traveling from Brazil, hidden inside 15 cars with final destinations that included Europe, in the latest large drug seizure off the West African coast this year. The cocaine was packed in travel bags in the cars on...
“Saiko” : How illegalfishing destroys Ghana’s fisheries

“Saiko” : How illegalfishing destroys Ghana’s fisheries

An EJF report: Along Ghana’s 330 mile coastline, the ocean provides food and income for millions of people. In the last half-century, industrial vessels have flocked to these waters, trawling the sea for fish to export overseas. Now an illegal practice, known locally...