Why Nigeria’s election year may see a spike in pirate attacks

At a shipping conference in Copenhagen last Tuesday, intelligence experts voiced a curious hypothesis about pirate attacks in West Africa’s Gulf of Guinea: The attacks, they said, will increase as Nigeria gears up for general elections scheduled for February. "The ransoms are used for the elections," Hans Tino Hansen, managing director of Risk Intelligence, explained, […]

















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