Rewarding mutineers could be the best way to capture their leaders. By Timothy Coleman & Brittany Minder Escalating maritime piracy off the Horn of Africa and throughout the world’s vital shipping lanes and strategic chokepoints is a modern-day plague with an elusive framework. Failed states and lawless regions around the world, like Somalia, serve as […]
Newsweek Pulls PMPF Profile on Opening Day of Anti Piracy Conference This morning, Newsweek published the article, “To Catch Pirates, Somalia Turns to Outsourcing” written by senior national-security correspondent for Newsweek and The Daily Beast, Eli Lake. The timing was perfect with the opening of the Dubai-based anti piracy conference. ©Somalia Report PMPF Training Base in […]
Rear Adm. (Lower Half) Anho Chung, Republic of Korea Navy, embarked the ROKS WANG GEON (DDH 978) to begin his tenure as Commander Combined Task Force 151 (counter-piracy), Jun. 18. He leads a staff of 20 multi-national naval officers from seven nations, comprising Republic of Korea, United States, the Netherlands, Thailand, Jordan, Turkey and the […]
Minister for Foreign Affairs, Bob Carr visited the Sultanate of Oman and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, strengthening Australia’s ties with the Middle East. Senator Carr’s visit to Oman was the first by an Australian Foreign Minister in at least two decades. Senator Carr’s discussions with his Omani hosts, including the Minister Responsible for Foreign […]
The human and economic cost of maritime piracy and exploring ways to enhance regional response are the focus of a high-level public-private counter-piracy summit opening in Dubai tomorrow (June 27). The second UAE Counter-Piracy Conference, co-convened by the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and global marine terminal operator DP World, will conclude on June 28 […]
By SAPA Deborah Calitz and Bruno Pelizzari, who were kidnapped by Somali pirates and held captive for more than a year, will arrive in South Africa on Wednesday morning, a family spokesman said. “They will leave Rome tonight (Tuesday) and will land in Pretoria on Wednesday morning,” Calitz’s brother Dale van der Merwe said on […]
“Indigenous aircraft carrier programme – a continuing process over the next decade plus”: Admiral Nirmal Verma The Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Nirmal Verma today said “…the global gaze is focusing increasingly on the Asia-Pacific region which underlines the significance of the Indian Ocean in global security affairs”. Speaking about the improving resource allocation to […]
Image supplied by TFG press release shows Acting Prime Minister Hussein Arab Isse with Pelizzari and Calitz following their release. By Reuters Mogadishu – A South African couple kidnapped by Somali pirates 20 months ago aboard a yacht in the Indian Ocean have been freed and flew out of Somalia on Thursday. Looking thin and stressed, […]
The Seychelles Foreign Minister has called on European partners to “look at the oceans as a development space that should be treated with the same seriousness as land-based development” in a special piracy presentation he made to the EU Sub-committee on External Affairs of the House of Lords in the United Kingdom. The Minister for […]
By JULIAN HALE BRUSSELS — The European Union is aiming to step up the pressure on the “business model” used by pirates hijacking ships off Somalia, be that in terms of their financial transactions, their procurement of assets, their seizing of ships, the negotiation process and the money they obtain from ransoms. Speaking at a press […]