ATLANTIC AFRICA

This report, produced with the assistance of the UNODC Global Maritime Crime Programme, examines the potential maritime radiological and...

Pirate groups concentrated in the Niger Delta earn perhaps $5 million of direct income per year through theft and hostage-taking. The...

In 2020, the outbreak of COVID-19 had a profound impact on the shipping industry. Thousands of seafarers, unable to disembark for crew...

What We Know About Maritime Illicit Trades is the second in a series of reports produced in the Transnational Organized Crime at Sea: New...

In recent years, much of the policy attention around maritime security in the Gulf of Guinea has prioritized approaches to combat piracy...

The threat of piracy and armed robbery against vessels in the waters off West and Central Africa has loomed for decades. In 2013, the...

The Yaoundé Architecture is a critical piece of the maritime security picture in West and Central Africa, resulting from the...

Terrorist groups around the globe have seen the challenges of securing the maritime domain as an opportunity to advance their political...

Over the last ten years the focus of the annual State of Maritime Piracy report has expanded from piracy off the coast of Somalia to...

What We Know about Piracy kicks off a new three-part series of reports published with the SafeSeas Network as part of the Transnational...

Stable Seas: Gulf of Guinea explores the connections between maritime governance themes and security challenges, drawing on interviews...

The ninth annual edition of the State of Maritime Piracy report finds that the Gulf of Guinea was the area most affected by piracy and...

The failure to acknowledge or recognize the importance of the maritime domain to both society and the economy, or sea blindness,...

OVERVIEW This fact sheet explores the current state of the Blue Economy in Sub-Saharan Africa, as well as the significant challenges to...

OVERVIEW This issue paper explores the critical relationship between maritime enforcement capability and the rule of law in improving and...