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Piracy in the Gulf of Guinea, the Glossary

Piracy in the Gulf of Guinea affects a number of countries in West Africa as well as the wider international community.^[1]

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Abidjan

Abidjan (N'ko: ߊߓߌߖߊ߲߬) is the largest city and the former capital of Côte d'Ivoire.

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African Union

The African Union (AU) is a continental union of 55 member states located on the continent of Africa.

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Angola

Angola, officially the Republic of Angola, is a country on the west-central coast of Southern Africa.

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Associated Press

The Associated Press (AP) is an American not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.

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Bakassi

Bakassi is a peninsula on the Gulf of Guinea.

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Bakassi conflict

The Bakassi conflict is an ongoing armed dispute over the Bakassi Peninsula of Cameroon.

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Bayelsa State

Bayelsa is a state in the South South region of Nigeria, located in the core of the Niger Delta.

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Benin

Benin (Bénin, Benɛ, Benen), officially the Republic of Benin (République du Bénin), and also known as Dahomey, is a country in West Africa.

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Bioko

Bioko (historically Fernando Po,; Ëtulá a Ëri) is an island of Equatorial Guinea. Piracy in the Gulf of Guinea and Bioko are Gulf of Guinea.

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Blue economy

Blue economy is a term in economics relating to the exploitation, preservation and regeneration of the marine environment.

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Cameroon

Cameroon, officially the Republic of Cameroon, is a country in Central Africa.

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Capacity building

Capacity building (or capacity development, capacity strengthening) is the improvement in an individual's or organization's facility (or capability) "to produce, perform or deploy".

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Côte d'Ivoire

Côte d'Ivoire, also known as Ivory Coast and officially known as the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, is a country on the southern coast of West Africa.

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Code of conduct

A code of conduct is a set of rules outlining the norms, rules, and responsibilities or proper practices of an individual party or an organization.

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The current conflict in the Niger Delta first arose in the early 1990s over tensions between foreign oil corporations and a number of the Niger Delta's minority ethnic groups who feel they are being exploited, particularly the Ogoni and the Ijaw.

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Control Risks

Control Risks is a global risk and strategic consulting firm specializing in political, security and integrity risk assessments.

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Corruption in Nigeria

Corruption is an anti-social attitude awarding improper privileges contrary to legal and moral norms and impairs the authorities' capacity to secure the welfare of all citizens.

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Cotonou

Cotonou (Kútɔ̀nú) is the largest city in Benin.

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Danish counter-piracy strategy

Danish shipping's counter-piracy strategy is necessary as Denmark operates one of the world's five largest shipping nations in terms of operated fleet, controlling around 10% of global shipping.

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Democratic Republic of the Congo

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), also known as the DR Congo, Congo-Kinshasa, Congo-Zaire, or simply either Congo or the Congo, is a country in Central Africa.

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Denmark

Denmark (Danmark) is a Nordic country in the south-central portion of Northern Europe.

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Douala

Douala is the largest city in Cameroon and its economic capital.

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ECOWAS

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS; also known as CEDEAO in French and Portuguese) is a regional political and economic union of fifteen countries of West Africa.

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Ensign (flag)

The ensign is a maritime flag that is used for the national identification of a ship.

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Equatorial Guinea

Equatorial Guinea (Guinea Ecuatorial; Guinée équatoriale; Guiné Equatorial), officially the Republic of Equatorial Guinea (República de Guinea Ecuatorial, République de Guinée équatoriale, República da Guiné Equatorial), is a country on the west coast of Central Africa, with an area of.

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European Union

The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe.

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Exclusive economic zone

An exclusive economic zone (EEZ), as prescribed by the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, is an area of the sea in which a sovereign state has exclusive rights regarding the exploration and use of marine resources, including energy production from water and wind.

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Failed state

A failed state is a state that has lost its ability to fulfill fundamental security and development functions, lacking effective control over its territory and borders.

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Fox News

The Fox News Channel (FNC), commonly known as Fox News, is an American multinational conservative news and political commentary television channel and website based in New York City.

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Frogman Corps (Denmark)

The Frogman Corps (Frømandskorpset) is the maritime special operations force of the Danish Armed Forces part of Special Operations Command.

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Gabon

Gabon (Ngabu), officially the Gabonese Republic (République gabonaise), is a country on the Atlantic coast of Central Africa, on the equator, bordered by Equatorial Guinea to the northwest, Cameroon to the north, the Republic of the Congo on the east and south, and the Gulf of Guinea to the west.

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Ghana

Ghana, officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa.

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Ghana Navy

The Ghana Navy (GN) is the naval warfare organizational military branch of the Ghanaian Armed Forces (GAF).

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Gulf of Guinea

The Gulf of Guinea is the northeasternmost part of the tropical Atlantic Ocean from Cape Lopez in Gabon, north and west to Cape Palmas in Liberia.

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HDMS Esbern Snare (F342)

HDMS Esbern Snare (F342) is an frigate and is, along with her sister ship, the, amongst the largest combat vessels currently commissioned in the Royal Danish Navy.

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Illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing

Illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (IUU) is an issue around the world.

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Indian Air Force

The Indian Air Force (IAF) is the air arm of the Indian Armed Forces.

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International Maritime Bureau

The International Maritime Bureau is a specialized department of the International Chamber of Commerce.

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International Maritime Organization

The International Maritime Organization (IMO; Organisation maritime internationale; Organización Marítima Internacional) is a specialised agency of the United Nations responsible for regulating maritime transport.

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Interpol

The International Criminal Police Organization – INTERPOL (abbreviated as ICPO–INTERPOL), commonly known as Interpol (stylized in allcaps), is an international organization that facilitates worldwide police cooperation and crime control.

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List of ships attacked by Nigerian pirates

Since 2009 a number of ships have been attacked by Nigerian pirates. Piracy in the Gulf of Guinea and List of ships attacked by Nigerian pirates are piracy in Nigeria.

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Malabo

Malabo (formerly Santa Isabel) is the capital of Equatorial Guinea and the province of Bioko Norte.

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Malta

Malta, officially the Republic of Malta, is an island country in Southern Europe located in the Mediterranean Sea.

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Maritime security

Maritime security is an umbrella term informed to classify issues in the maritime domain that are often related to national security, marine environment, economic development, and human security.

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Muhammadu Buhari

Muhammadu Buhari (born 17 December 1942) is a Nigerian statesman who served as the president of Nigeria from 2015 to 2023.

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Niger Delta

The Niger Delta is the delta of the Niger River sitting directly on the Gulf of Guinea on the Atlantic Ocean in Nigeria. Piracy in the Gulf of Guinea and Niger Delta are Gulf of Guinea.

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Nigeria

Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa.

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Perenco

Perenco is an independent Anglo-French oil and gas company with a headquarters in London and Paris.

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Petro-piracy in the Gulf of Guinea

As a practice of piracy, petro-piracy, also sometimes called oil piracy or petrol piracy, is defined as “illegal taking of oil after vessel hijacks, which are sometimes executed with the use of motorships” with huge potential financial rewards. Piracy in the Gulf of Guinea and petro-piracy in the Gulf of Guinea are piracy in Nigeria and piracy in the Atlantic Ocean.

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Piracy

Piracy is an act of robbery or criminal violence by ship or boat-borne attackers upon another ship or a coastal area, typically with the goal of stealing cargo and other valuable goods.

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Piracy and armed robbery in the Singapore Strait

Frequent incidents of piracy and armed robbery in the Singapore Strait have led to the area being labelled as an area of concern by the Regional Cooperation Agreement on Combating Piracy and Armed Robbery against Ships in Asia (RECAAP).

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Piracy in the Strait of Malacca

Piracy in the Strait of Malacca has long been a threat to ship owners and the mariners who ply the 900 km-long (550 miles) sea lane.

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Piracy off the coast of Somalia

Piracy off the coast of Somalia occurs in the Gulf of Aden, Guardafui Channel, and Somali Sea, in Somali territorial waters and other surrounding places and has a long troubled history with different perspectives from different communities.

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Piracy on Falcon Lake

Piracy on Falcon Lake refers to an increase in crime at the border between the United States and Mexico on Falcon Lake.

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Pointe-Noire

Pointe-Noire (Njinji, Ndjindji with the letter d following French spelling standards) is the second largest city in the Republic of the Congo, following the capital of Brazzaville, and an autonomous department and a commune since the 2002 Constitution.

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Political kidnapping

Political kidnapping is kidnapping which is conducted to obtain political concessions from security forces, governments or intelligence agencies.

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Port-Gentil

Port-Gentil or Mandji is the second-largest city of Gabon, and it is a leading seaport.

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Republic of the Congo

The Republic of the Congo, also known as Congo-Brazzaville, West Congo, Congo Republic, ROC, ROTC, or simply either Congo or the Congo, is a country located on the western coast of Central Africa to the west of the Congo River.

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Rigid inflatable boat

A rigid inflatable boat (RIB), also rigid-hull inflatable boat or rigid-hulled inflatable boat (RHIB), is a lightweight but high-performance and high-capacity boat constructed with a rigid hull bottom joined to side-forming air tubes that are inflated with air to a high pressure so as to give the sides resilient rigidity along the boat's topsides.

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Royal Danish Navy

The Royal Danish Navy (Søværnet) is the sea-based branch of the Danish Armed Forces force.

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Senegal

Senegal, officially the Republic of Senegal, is the westernmost country in West Africa, situated on the Atlantic Ocean coastline. Senegal is bordered by Mauritania to the north, Mali to the east, Guinea to the southeast and Guinea-Bissau to the southwest. Senegal nearly surrounds The Gambia, a country occupying a narrow sliver of land along the banks of the Gambia River, which separates Senegal's southern region of Casamance from the rest of the country.

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Territorial waters

Territorial waters are informally an area of water where a sovereign state has jurisdiction, including internal waters, the territorial sea, the contiguous zone, the exclusive economic zone, and potentially the extended continental shelf (these components are sometimes collectively called the maritime zones).

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The Christian Science Monitor

The Christian Science Monitor (CSM), commonly known as The Monitor, is a nonprofit news organization that publishes daily articles both in electronic format and a weekly print edition.

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The Conversation (website)

The Conversation is a network of nonprofit media outlets publishing news stories and research reports online, with accompanying expert opinion and analysis.

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Togo

Togo, officially the Togolese Republic, is a country in West Africa.

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United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea

The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), also called the Law of the Sea Convention or the Law of the Sea Treaty, is an international treaty that establishes a legal framework for all marine and maritime activities.

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United Nations Security Council

The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations (UN) and is charged with ensuring international peace and security, recommending the admission of new UN members to the General Assembly, and approving any changes to the UN Charter.

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West Africa

West Africa, or Western Africa, is the westernmost region of Africa. The United Nations defines Western Africa as the 16 countries of Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo, as well as Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha (United Kingdom Overseas Territory).Paul R.

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Yaoundé

Yaoundé is the capital of Cameroon and, with a population of more than 2.8 million, the second-largest city in the country after the port city Douala.

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2020 in West Africa

The following lists events that happened during 2020 in West Africa.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piracy_in_the_Gulf_of_Guinea

Also known as Piracy in Nigeria.

, Piracy and armed robbery in the Singapore Strait, Piracy in the Strait of Malacca, Piracy off the coast of Somalia, Piracy on Falcon Lake, Pointe-Noire, Political kidnapping, Port-Gentil, Republic of the Congo, Rigid inflatable boat, Royal Danish Navy, Senegal, Territorial waters, The Christian Science Monitor, The Conversation (website), Togo, United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, United Nations Security Council, West Africa, Yaoundé, 2020 in West Africa.

Piracy in the Gulf of Guinea, the Glossary

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See also

Gulf of Guinea

Piracy in Nigeria

Piracy in the Atlantic Ocean

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