There was shouting on deck, and shots. Gunmen had boarded, and their message was clear: Come with us, or we will kill you. They shot one crew member and kidnapped four others.
Pirates stormed a container ship off the coast of Guinea on Wednesday, making off with money and some of its cargo but leaving the crew unharmed, the government said.
Three Southeast Asian countries, the Philippines, Indonesia and Malaysia, have reached an agreement for trilateral maritime cooperation to launch joint sea patrols in regional waters in an effort to deal with the rising number of kidnappings and pirate attacks, according to the Jakarta...
Oil companies and even Nigerian officials are losing faith in a deal anytime soon with militants who have slashed the nation’s oil output, casting doubt on a production recovery in what is typically Africa’s largest oil exporter.
The Nigerian navy used its “superior firepower” to foil a pirate attack on a British-flagged freighter and rescue the crew in an encounter off the west African coast, a spokesman said.
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