East Africa: Piracy Threat Rises as Tactics Improve

Nairobi — Maritime security is under a much bigger threat from the Somali pirates than earlier thought, a spokesman for the French chief of staff said on Friday.

Speaking to a visiting group of African journalists from Burundi, Sudan, Uganda and Kenya, Rear Admiral Christophe Prazuck, who also heads the communication department in the ministry of Defence, added that the previously rag-tag group of Somali attackers was becoming better organised by the day.

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