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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
