23/04/2014
US, African Countries Team Up to Tackle Piracy in Gulf of Guinea
Moki Edwin Kindzeka YAOUNDE, CAMEROON ? Three blocs of African countries and the United States have agreed to coordinate efforts to fight piracy in the Gulf of Guinea. Forty vessels have been attacked by armed gangs in the Gulf of Guinea this year, according to senior officials of the U.S. military#39;s Africa Command. The epicenter of West African piracy is Nigeria, with 12 attacks and multiple kidnappings this year. Aboko Patrick, mayor of Kombo Abedimo, a Cameroonian locality on the Bakassi peninsula, tells VOA that the...
