West Africa losing $2bn yearly to maritime piracy

14 October 2015, Lagos – West African countries are losing $2 billion annually to maritime piracy and armed robbery, the Ghanaian Chief of Naval Staff, Rear Admiral Geoffrey Mawuli Biekro, has said. Biekro, who spoke in Accra, said maritime piracy and armed robbery on the African continent mainly took place along the Gulf of Guinea […] More »