Tanzania: Dar Keen to Enhance Maritime Security, Fight High Sea Piracy
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- Published on Wednesday, 11 February 2015 05:56
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By Faustine Kapama TANZANIA DAILY NEWS
TANZANIA is committed to taking all necessary and acceptable actions to enhance maritime security and work together with regional and international partners to fight piracy.
Speaking for the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) at the just-ended judicial exhibition week in Dar es Salaam last week, Senior State Attorney Mohamed Salum told the 'Daily News' that fighting maritime piracy was not the undertaking of a single country.
"As a move to foster the Regional and Global progress on the prosecution of pirates, the country developed the National Plan to Combat Maritime Piracy aimed at consolidating national efforts for combating piracy," he said.
The plan, the trial attorney said, would assist the government to promote Maritime Security through
Piratas atacan buque petrolero griego cerca de costas de Nigeria y Camerún
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Un buque petrolero griego fue atacado por piratas cerca de las costas de Nigeria y Camerún, lo que resultó en la muerte de un oficial griego y en el secuestro de tres miembros de la tripulación, indicó hoy la Guardia Costera de Grecia.
El buque "Kalamos" con bandera de Malta zarpó de China con rumbo a Nigeria y no estaba cargado durante el ataque, informó el Ministerio de Marina Mercante de Grecia. El buque petrolero fue fletado por una refinadora de India, según información preliminar.
El subcomandante resultó lesionado de muerte durante el ataque armado que ocurrió mientras el buque petrolero estaba a punto de ser cargado en una terminal petrolera cercana. Los piratas huyeron con tres rehenes, dos griegos y un ciudadano extranjero.
Aún se desconoce si los miembros de la tripulación resultaron heridos.
El "Kalamos" tenía una tripulación de 23 miembros, incluyendo a 10 griegos, informó la Guardia Costera de Grecia. F
MPHRP: Signposting for Mental Health Support
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It is only after some time following traumatic events that mental health complications may surface. Assessment immediately after such events would most probably show signs of the common and perfectly normal after effects of extraordinary life events.
While research is scant, all indications are that seafarers respond to trauma as we all do. We are usually quite resilient. We recover over time. Only very few of us experience
IMB concerned over decision to compensate pirates
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- Wednesday, 24 December 2014 08:59
The International Maritime Bureau (IMB) has joined other maritime organisations in expressing concern over the decision to compensate convicted Somali pirates.
These criminals have been responsible for taking hostage thousands of seafarers, who were subjected to unprovoked violence and sometimes torture. Some seafarers have also been murdered while carrying out their lawful business on the high seas.
Earlier this month, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ordered France to pay thousands of euros to Somali pirates who had attacked French ships in 2008. The pirates were captured by French military on the Somali coast after they hijacked two French yachts in separate attacks in 2008.