Piracy Rises in Oil-Rich West Africa

While piracy attacks off the coast of unstable Somalia have garnered lots of attention in recent years, maritime security experts say it is on Africa’s western coast, in the oil rich Gulf of Guinea, where piracy attacks are currently on the rise.  Militants hidden behind bandanas from Nigeria’s Niger Delta oil region fire machine guns into the water from a speeding boat during a recent show of force staged for media.Their usual attacks range from stealing oil to kidnapping

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