EU NAVFOR hosted a press conference on 20 February 2012 to present an update on Operation ATALANTA, piracy off the Horn of Africa and a view towards future developments. The briefing was hosted by Operation Commander Rear Admiral Duncan L. Potts with Deputy Operation Commander Rear Admiral Rainer Endres and the NATO Deputy Chief …
Read more »BY JAMIE LYNN DE COSTER, MATTHEW HERBERT Over the past decade, the western Indian Ocean unexpectedly emerged as a hotbed for maritime crime as pirates — safe-havened in Somalia — menaced seafarers as far east as the Maldives. Shipping companies have been hit hard, with one estimate placing the direct costs of Somali piracy at $5.5 billion …
Read more »LONDON (RBC) Two Seychelles officials Tuesday called for more concerted international action to tackle piracy in the Indian Ocean. The call was made by Seychelles Foreign Minister Jean-Paul Adam and Minister for Home Affairs Joel Morgan, who are here to attend the London Conference on Somalia organized by the British government. Morgan said in a speech …
Read more »LONDON (RBC) Two Seychelles officials Tuesday called for more concerted international action to tackle piracy in the Indian Ocean. The call was made by Seychelles Foreign Minister Jean-Paul Adam and Minister for Home Affairs Joel Morgan, who are here to attend the London Conference on Somalia organized by the British government. Morgan said in a speech …
Read more »Feb 22, Colombo: Minister of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Rajitha Senaratne says that a delegation will leave for Somalia next week to discuss the release of six Sri Lankan fishermen with the Somali sea pirates. The Minister said that several members of the families of the abducted fishermen would also be in the delegation. The …
Read more »British prison officers and prosecutors are at every stage of the ‘conveyor belt’ as part of anti-piracy action in the Seychelles that begins with pirates being captured in the Indian Ocean by Royal Marines. Mike Pflanz reports: Near the top of the highest peak in the Seychelles, with views of the azure Indian Ocean and miles …
Read more »Britain has already spent £9 million – more than any other nation, and a quarter of all United Nations Indian Ocean counter-piracy funds – to train prison staff, help upgrade cells or build new prisons, and to improve local lawyers’ expertise in the Seychelles, Somalia and Kenya. That funding is necessary because under European human …
Read more »LONDON (Reuters) – When tanker master Miro Alibasic takes one of his company’s vast ships across the Indian Ocean, he likes to have all the firepower he can get on board. Having seen last year how Somali pirates treat their captives, the 61-year-old is in no hurry to experience it again. “It was hell on …
Read more »LONDON (Reuters) – When tanker master Miro Alibasic takes one of his company’s vast ships across the Indian Ocean, he likes to have all the firepower he can get on board. Having seen last year how Somali pirates treat their captives, the 61-year-old is in no hurry to experience it again. “It was hell on …
Read more »PRAVEEN SWAMI Naval action isn’t going to end piracy. For a durable solution, governments need to find ways to bring order to one of the world’s most dangerous regions. Late in 1815, ten British warships arrived off Algiers, armed with dozens of cannon — and orders to use nothing else to negotiate with the Barbary …
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