![]() It’s also interesting to note how quickly and effectively Western countries can get together to address a security threat in the developing world … when it involves people from those countries stealing our stuff. In other words, the type of international response that seems to have quelled the Somali pirates can’t work everywhere. That these attacks are happening within the territory of states-and ones that, unlike Somalia, are capable of defending their sovereignty-significantly affects the international response to them. “Attacks off West Africa described as piracy often occur in the territorial waters of Nigeria or its neighbors, not on the high seas,” and as such may not even technically qualify as “piracy” under international law. Naval Intelligence Officer Mark Munson pointed out in an interesting essay recently, it’s a bit misleading to compare Somali piracy to what we’re seeing in the waters around Nigeria. officials confirm that a yacht with four Americans aboard has been seized by Somali pirates in the waters of the Indian Ocean. But in Somali perception piracy is considered differently. ![]() (Malaysia and Indonesia also reported a significant number of attacks.)Īs U.S. Somalia's Troubled Waters: Pirates, Foreign Illegal Fishing and Waste Dumping Rens Steenhard on 23 August 2012 Abstract The face of a modern pirate, is usually the face of a young man of Somali origin, a criminal and opportunist whose activities harm international shipping. Meanwhile, West African piracy, particularly in the oil-rich waters off Nigeria, Gabon, the Ivory Coast, and Togo, accounted for 19 percent of the world’s pirate attacks last year.
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