The Nigerian Navy and Federal Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture (FDFA) arrested 33 people, including three Chinese nationals, in late…
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Comoros, Djibouti, Somalia and Sudan are among 14 nations that signed the Multinational Maritime Defence Alliance, a partnership that aims…
Armed pirates in mid-August boarded and seized a cargo vessel about 4 nautical miles off the Somali coast. About a…
Vessels connected to Russia’s widely sanctioned “shadow fleet” are abusing continental shipping registries to continue exporting oil and fund Moscow’s…
Cameroon is working to deregister and sanction foreign vessels that illegally register with the country to avoid detection. These shadow…
As naval leaders from across the continent gathered in Rabat, Morocco for the fourth annual African Maritime Forces Summit they…
In Sierra Leone, the illegal activities of foreign industrial trawlers are decimating fish stocks and threatening the livelihoods of artisanal…
While piracy is down in the Gulf of Guinea, the region remains the world’s hot spot for illegal, unreported and…
China has refused to sign an agreement meant to improve efforts to combat illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing. Beijing…
Iranian and Russian “shadow fleet” vessels use bogus websites that mimic African ship registries, maritime administrations, seafarer organizations and other…