![]() ![]() – C: coastal shipping assaults as above but with selective and strategic kidnap-for-ransom – B: coastal shipping assaults that occur while vessels are underway, adrift or at anchor further offshore, with theft being more extensive, and with perpetrators being armed with heavier weaponry – A: inland assaults affecting vessels at berth or at anchor and awaiting berth which largely constitute petty theft and tend to be unsophisticated in nature ![]() ![]() The paper puts forward five categories of crime: Analysis of this data, which was collected by cross-referencing reports from the International Maritime Bureau and the International Maritime Organisation, supplemented by information from other sources where possible, has allowed her to determine the contours of maritime criminal activities in Nigeria, and the Gulf of Guinea beyond. One of the key contributions of the paper is the presentation of a typology of maritime crime in that sub-region, which has been refined, based on the data, from the works of Martin Murphy. In a recent article published in Africa Insight, Lisa Otto puts forward the findings from her analysis of a five-year dataset for maritime crime that she collected and collated for the period 2009 to 2013. ![]()
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