Pirates may move south

Pretoria - Piracy could move to the Mozambican Channel because of instability caused by piracy from Somalia, an analyst warned on Tuesday."Both sides are not particularly densely populated, are seriously under-policed and there is a lot of shipping going through," defence analyst Helmoed-Römer Heitman told a maritime security seminar in Pretoria.Heitman said there would be a major difference between the Somali pirates and future Mozambican Channel pirates.Pirates in Somalia could wait

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