
In a new evaluation of the piracy threat off Somalia and West Africa, The Danish Defence Intelligence Service (DDIS) determines that in the month of April there were no registered piracy-related activities in the Gulf of Aden. As DDIS point out, this is the first time a downward trend in the number of attacks in the central part of the recommended transit corridor has been recorded when compared to the development of the corresponding time spans in 2010 and 2011.
At the same time, pirate-related activity has been very low in the southern part of the Red Sea and surrounding Bab el Mandeb strait. “The activities cannot be immediately confirmed as being related to piracy. DDIS is still assessing whether the majority of the reported events in the area are due to civilian merchant ships mistaking fishermen for pirates,” states the report from DDIS.
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