The EU’s Maritime Ambitions in the Indo-Pacific
On March 10, the EU published its new Maritime Security Strategy – an updated and enhanced version...
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Nigeria’s delayed ‘Integrated National Security and Waterways Protection Infrastructure’ framework, also known as The Deep Blue Project (DBP), is finally set to commence this month, several years after it was first announced. In our latest analysis, Dryad Global's Mitch Thomas and Archie O'Devlin explore what the launch of the $195m DBP means for piracy in West Africa.
The DBP is highly anticipated as it represents a comprehensive enhancement of Nigeria’s maritime security capabilities, which is intended to curb piracy, robbery, kidnapping, oil theft, smuggling, and illegal trafficking of drugs and persons within its territorial waters and exclusive economic zone. Whilst the aims of the DBP are multifaceted, the primacy of effort is without question the fight against piracy and the delivery of enhanced safety of life at sea.
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