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Box 1: Shifting Piracy Hotspots

Box 1: Shifting Piracy Hotspots

Incidents of piracy and armed robbery have been rising in East African waters (e.g., Gulf of Aden, and Red Sea) in recent years as the numbers of incidents in other parts of the globe have generally stabilized.

In 2008, acts of piracy that occurred in...