Pirateria En El Golfo De Guinea

TOPIC: Piracy in the Gulf Of Guinea
In the last few years, new guinea (that it occupy a total of 12 countries from Liberia until Angola and specifically off the coast of Benin.), has been thescenery of a lot of considerable attacks, Robberies, and kidnappings by international shipping local pirates.
In the first quarter attempts to approach vessels have increased considerably over the coastsof West Africa, where there were 18 of the 102 reported pirate attacks worldwide, almost 20% of the total. Most of the incidents, ten occurred in Nigerian waters, the same as reported for all oflast year off the coast of that country, according to data from the International Maritime Bureau.
The International Maritime Bureau is extremely concerned that Nigeria bands are rapidly expandingtheir scope of action in the South Atlantic.
Maritime authorities also warn of violence by Nigerian pirates, superior to that of the Somalis, although there are more attacks by Somali violence byNigerians is greater.
Nigeria is a country severely affected by sea piracy due to the lack of security, and authorities believe it may increase because many incidents go unreported, because some shipscarry illegal oil cargo and others fear their insurance rates increase. The center of Kuala Lumpur, which depends on the International Maritime Bureau in London, has urged the Government of Nigeria tosolve the security problem before deaths occur or that oil companies decide to stop operating in the country for the violence of pirates.
Recently, the UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon denouncedmaritime insecurity in Nigeria. The Security Council of the UN endorsed his proposal to convene a regional summit to map out a strategy to tackle piracy in the Gulf of Guinea.
In the eastern seaboardof Africa operate usually small armed groups in Nigeria. Local authorities can not influence the situation. The situation in Nigeria is difficult. First, the government faces many serious problems,...