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Piracy and Armed Robbery at Sea Maintained by IMO  
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Acts of piracy and armed robbery against ships are of tremendous concern to IMO and to shipping in general. The fight to prevent and suppress these acts is linked to the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts Against the Safety of Maritime Navigation, 1988 and to measures to improve security on ships and in port facilities adopted in December 2002.   See More...
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Pirate attacks could ramp up hunger in Africa, warns UN agency
UN News Centre
16 April 2009
Several ships carrying United Nations emergency relief supplies bound for Somalia have become the latest victims of piracy off the Horn of Africa, prompting the World Food Programme (WFP) to express concern that millions of people in the strife-torn region could go hungry.
Read more at http://www.un.org/apps/n ... racy&Cr1=.
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