Maritime Piracy in the Gulf of Guinea

ملخص:
   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, and to break it down and get control over its dimensions, this study tries to diagnose the course of the maritime piracy phenomenon in the Gulf of Guinea, the causes of its expansion, its effects on West Africa and focuses on its security implications in particular, as much as all security and political, individual and collective actions used to fight it, factors that prevented its containment, whether they are natural, economic, political or social, local or international, it argues that the defect main cause lies on the intersection of all above binarities, it states in the end that the phenomenon will certainly continue due to the States’s delay to treat the disbalances in setting up a strategy to counter it.