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During the last two years, the international organizations specialized in maritime security recorded an increase in piracy incidents in the western African region, despite all efforts made to fight it down. This failure reflects the complexity that surrounds this phenomenon. To break it down and get control over its dimensions, this study tries to analyze the course of the maritime piracy phenomenon in the Gulf of Guinea; main causes of its expansion; and its effects on West Africa. The study, as it focuses on its security implications in particular, as much as all security and political, individual and collective actions used to fight it, will examine factors that prevented its containment, whether they are natural, economic, political or social, local or international. It also argues that the main cause lies on the intersection of all above mentioned perspectives, as it concludes in the end that this phenomenon will certainly continue, due to the African States’ delay to treat the threats in setting up a strategy to counter it.
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