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Gulf of Guinea states lose US$1.94b annually to piracy and armed robbery —-UN official

A senior United Nations official has said that the states in the Gulf of Guinea are losing a whopping sum of$ 1.94 billion annually to piracy and armed robbery.
She pointed out that incidents in the Gulf of Guinea account for the majority of kidnappings of seafarers for ransom around the world.
Pirate groups gaining in sophistication and increasingly able to conduct attacks against international vessels in deeper waters are perpetrating the crimes.
Terrorism is also rife in the region.
Cécile Thiombiano Yougbare, the public policy analyst, said in 2021, more than 800 civilians were killed in Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger, in attacks attributed to non-state armed groups.
Other civilians died as a result of abuses attributed to defence and security forces.
“The entire security strategy failed,” Yougbare said.
The Gulf of Guinea is the northeasternmost part of the tropical Atlantic Ocean.
Basin countries are Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, São Tomé and Príncipe and Togo.
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