Somali piracy has risen sharply adding to maritime shipping threats in a region of the world already dealing with Red Sea chaos caused by Houthi attacks.

Gulf of Guinea, which encompasses the waters of West Africa, is now the epicenter of global maritime piracy. The International Maritime Bureau reported a significant rise in incidents in 2022.

United Nations officials say terrorism and the use of new technologies like weaponized drones against merchant shipping have ...

The Houthis have turned extortion into a structured business, offering shipowners a 'customer-relations' email address to ...

On March 15, 2024, an Indian Navy long-range maritime patrol intercepted the Ruen about 260 nautical miles east of Somalia.

In the just-ended calendar year, the International Maritime Bureau (IMB) recorded 116 incidents of piracy and armed robbery ...

It is also important to distinguish the crime of piracy from armed robbery against ships, which can occur within the internal waters and territorial sea of a coastal State. In accordance with Part ...

After some six years of absence, the piracy threat off the coast of Somalia made a comeback to the region after the Houthis began targeting vessels at the entrance of the Red Sea, claiming that ...

Back in 2010 the Somalis accounted for nearly all the hijackings. There are still pirates out there, but they are more into robbery than kidnapping.

The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) hailed the three-day cluster meeting of the Regional Cooperation in Combating Piracy and ...

TASS/. Russian Navy ships and a destroyer of Japan’s Maritime Self-Defense Force started anti-piracy drills in the Arabian Sea, the press office of Russia’s Baltic Fleet reported on Monday.