Stable Seas: Western Indian Ocean provides a holistic overview of maritime security covering nine issue areas with a focus on those...

In 2020, the outbreak of COVID-19 had a profound impact on the shipping industry. Thousands of seafarers, unable to disembark for crew...

What We Know About Maritime Illicit Trades is the second in a series of reports produced in the Transnational Organized Crime at Sea: New...

This policy brief examines maritime security and governance in the Indian Ocean region across nine issue areas including the blue...

Islamic State-affiliate Ansar al-Sunna (ASWJ) is fueling insecurity in northern Mozambique with regional implications. Throughout 2020,...

Post by Kelly Moss Since April 2020, Ansar al-Sunna (ASWJ) has increasingly targeted islands off the coast of Cabo Delgado, Mozambique’s...

Terrorist groups around the globe have seen the challenges of securing the maritime domain as an opportunity to advance their political...

Over the last ten years the focus of the annual State of Maritime Piracy report has expanded from piracy off the coast of Somalia to...

The Stable Seas Maritime Security Index maps and measures threats to maritime security in the coastal states of Africa and Asia, as well...

What We Know about Piracy kicks off a new three-part series of reports published with the SafeSeas Network as part of the Transnational...

Post by Sarah Gutberlet Trade in illicit arms in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, has been reported since the mid-1990s and continues today as...

The ninth annual edition of the State of Maritime Piracy report finds that the Gulf of Guinea was the area most affected by piracy and...

The failure to acknowledge or recognize the importance of the maritime domain to both society and the economy, or sea blindness,...

OVERVIEW This fact sheet explores the current state of the Blue Economy in Sub-Saharan Africa, as well as the significant challenges to...