Analysis: Maritime insecurity
New offshore oil and gas finds off of Africa’s coastline are drawing closer attention to the state of the continents maritime security, particularly off West Africa, where a jump in the number of incidents of piracy and armed robbery at sea were recorded in 2016.
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