Ghana's Oil and Pirate Activities in the Gulf of Guinuea
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17 May 2012
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THE RECURRENT pirate activities in the Gulf of Guinea and the increasing threat of terrorism in neighbouring Nigeria has raised grave security concerns to oil shipments in the West African sub-region and these are invariably too close for comfort to Ghana's oil installations.
Target countries of these pirate activities over the period have been...
Consultations on maritime security between China and Japan
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17 May 2012
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Papers including Beijing News suggest that the agenda of talks taking place in the southeastern city of Hangzhou will include the dispute over the East China Sea Senkaku islands, also known as the Diaoyu islands in China. Both Japan and China claim the islands.
China Daily's editorial says the Hangzhou talks are "a positive attempt to deal with...
Raid On Somali Pirate Bases In Line With UN Resolutions
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17 May 2012
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The European Union on Tuesday defended the first-ever raid carried out by its naval forces on pirate bases on the Somali mainland earlier in the day, insisting that the operation was in accordance with a previous resolution of the U.N. Security Council on piracy.
In a statement released by her office, EU Foreign Policy Chief Catherine Ashton...
IMO signs strategic counter-piracy capacity building partnerships with UN agencies and EU
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17 May 2012
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The commitment of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) to combat piracy off the coast of Somalia through boosting capacity building in the region has been underlined with the signing of five strategic partnerships with a number of UN agencies and the EU, following a Conference on Capacity Building to Counter Piracy off the Coast of...
EU Naval Force Welcomes Decision by Seychelles to Prosecute Suspect Somali Pirates
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17 May 2012
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The Republic of the Seychelles agreed to accept for prosecution 11 suspect pirates who were captured by EU Naval Force (EU NAVFOR) frigate HNLMS Van Amstel on Friday 11 May.
Suspect pirates who were captured by EU Naval Force (EU NAVFOR) frigate HNLMS Van Amstel
The 11 suspect pirates had pirated an Iranian dhow with 17 innocent Iranian fishermen...
