Via: Africa News
“Piracy in the Gulf of Guinea — home to Sub-Saharan Africa’s two main oil producers, Nigeria and Angola — has seriously disrupted international shipping routes and cost the global economy billions of dollars.
The idea of strengthening cooperation with Nigeria became necessary, in order to ensure coordinated monitoring of the Gulf of Guinea by the EU and its member states.
The visiting European Union countries which included Italy, Spain, Greece and France are also expected to address threats such as illegal fishing, trafficking and transnational crimes in the Gulf of Guinea.”
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