At least two piracy groups working in the Gulf of Guinea are responsible for the recent spate of attacks on tankers and kidnapping of crew, research from maritime security firm Dryad Global concludes.

Pirates operating in the Gulf of Guinea have kidnapped a total of 13 people on two European-flagged ships in the last three days. Four crew members on a Greek oil tanker were kidnapped after pirates ...

This has given hope to the world’s shipping fleets, as legal reforms will help stem rising attacks in the Gulf of Guinea, Reuters reports. The three men fined by the court in Port Harcourt, Nigeria’s ...

Operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) have arrested two suspected members of a band of sea pirates in Yenagoa, capital of Bayelsa State, as they were fine-tuning plans to hijack a crude ...

Senegal has three patrol vessels harboured in Dakar, and the intervention team launched from the "Ferlo" to begin their assessment. Identity papers are demanded and the cargo is inspected: one of the ...

A tanker has been boarded by pirates, who kidnapped at least 12 seafarers, it has been claimed. The Maritime Domain Awareness for Trade Gulf of Guinea said the crew members kidnapped after the ...

DAKAR (Reuters) - Armed men hijacked a Cyprus-flagged fuel tanker with 23 crew off the coast of Benin in West Africa on Wednesday, the International Maritime Bureau said. The incident is the latest in ...

Anti-piracy equipment company Palaemon reports that security threats occurred over the past week in the Singapore Straits, Gulf of Guinea and Red Sea. The incidents include: • 32 pirates used eight ...

Operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) on Saturday arrested two suspected members of a band of sea pirates in Yenagoa, capital of Bayelsa State, as they were fine-tuning plans to hijack ...