Mozambique: Piracy Could Come South, Analyst Warns

Pretoria — Piracy could move to the Mozambican Channel because of instability caused by piracy from Somalia, an analyst warned on Tuesday.

"Both sides [of the channel] are not particularly densely populated, are seriously under-policed and there is a lot of shipping going through," defence analyst Helmoed-Römer Heitman told a maritime security seminar in Pretoria.

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