Organisations like Partners Against Piracy, a campaign to protect the livelihoods of content creators by raising awareness about piracy, are gaining traction
The theft of content deprives creatives of a living and harms businesses and investor confidence
Police have rescued three sailors taken from a cargo ship off the coast of Equatorial Guinea – a rare success story in Nigeria’s fight against piracy.
Kevin Davie reflects on a recent conference in Rabat held to explore the potential of a re-energised Atlantic Basin.
Belgium has arrested a suspected Somali pirate leader said to have earned millions of dollars in ransom payments operating off the East African coast.
Percy Zvomuya interrogates the phenomenon of book piracy in Peru, and wonders if the high cost of books in SA could lead to a similar situation here.
European naval aircraft have fired at pirate-owned supplies on the Somali coastline for the first time since the EU authorised such strikes.
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/ 20 December 2011
China is forming military links in Africa and in the Indian Ocean in order, experts say, to protect Beijing’s economic interests in the region.
South Africa and Mozambique have signed an agreement to join forces with Tanzania to fight piracy in Southern African waters.
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/ 4 November 2011
Benin, Togo and Ghana begin a three-day meeting in Cotonou next week to hammer out ways to end a recent upsurge in piracy in the Gulf of Guinea.
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/ 1 November 2011
The UN Security Council has condemned piracy in the Gulf of Guinea off the West African coast and backed regional plans to tackle the growing problem.
A disjointed fight is being mounted against piracy off Nigeria’s coast as insurers say the threat has reached levels that rival lawless Somalia.
Southern Africa must be on high alert as the region’s shipping lanes are increasingly vulnerable to piracy, Defence Minister Lindiwe Sisulu says.
Sailors have recounted the horrors they faced during their captivity by Somali pirates who kept them in chains and treated them "like animals".
Global recorded music sales fell by almost $1,5-billion last year as digital piracy continued to take its toll on the industry.
Pirates kidnapped a record number of seafarers in 2010 in an "alarming" escalation of the crisis centred on Somalia, a maritime watchdog says.
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/ 25 November 2010
Five men from Somalia were convicted in a federal court in Virginia on piracy and other criminal charges over an April attack on a US Navy ship.
France will help African countries combat piracy, terrorism and drug-trafficking, President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Tuesday.
Piracy off Somalia will spread to other parts of the continent unless urgent interventions are made to stop it, said Justice Minister Jeff Radebe.
The first European trial of suspected Somali pirates opened in The Netherlands on Tuesday with five men denying they attempted to hijack a ship.
The US Navy has been training naval forces of West African nations to fight piracy.
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/ 1 February 2010
Alone, frightened and increasingly desperate, a gaunt Rachel Chandler spoke of her "cruel" treatment at the hands of her Somali kidnappers.
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/ 25 January 2010
Technology by team behind the MP3 will offer fans a new way to listen to music and could be key in the fight against piracy.
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/ 21 January 2010
Recorded music sales fell by about 10% in 2009, and are down 30% since 2004, after rampant piracy ate in to traditional and legitimate digital sales.
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/ 26 December 2009
A helicopter fired warning shots toward a suspected pirate skiff, where six Somali men sat among assault rifles, grappling hooks and a ladder.
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/ 30 November 2009
Somali pirates seized a tanker carrying crude oil from Saudi Arabia to the US in the increasingly dangerous waters off East Africa, officials said.
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/ 21 November 2009
A British couple kidnapped by Somali pirates in the Indian Ocean said in afilm broadcast on Friday their captors were losing patience.
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/ 31 October 2009
Somali pirates holding a British couple kidnapped from their yacht have demanded a ransom of -million to set them free.
Pirate attacks worldwide more than doubled in the first half of 2009, amid a surge of raids in the Gulf of Aden and the east coast of Somalia.
Fourteen Somali pirates held by the Spanish navy in the Indian Ocean are to be handed over to Kenyan authorities.
Somali pirates seized a Dutch vessel on Thursday with eight crew members on board, in the latest hijacking in the world’s most dangerous waterways.
Somali pirates have hijacked a bulk carrier in the Indian Ocean, their first successful attack in almost a week, a maritime watchdog said on Saturday.