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Thursday, November 27, 2008

Jobs: Maritime Security Positions, Africa

Filed under: Africa,Jobs,Maritime Security — Tags: , , , — Matt @ 12:12 PM

Maritime Security Managers to work offshore in West Africa

Check it out at Minimal Risk

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Maritime Special Interdiction Teams (SF types only)-Horn of Africa and Middle East

Check it out at the Secure Aspects Job Board

Company Link

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

News: PSC Prospects in Darfur

Filed under: Africa,News,Sudan — Tags: , , — Matt @ 10:22 PM

    Boy, there’s that R2P thing again.  Talk is cheap, and the Sudan and the Congo are disasters right now.  It is extremely frustrating to know that there is a capable company like Blackwater–ready to go into the fire and protect the weak, and yet we do nothing.  Good job to Mrs. Bennett for putting together a great article. –Head Jundi 

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18 Nov 2008

PSC prospects in Darfur

With the international community slow to react to the conflict in Darfur, private security companies weigh their options for entering the region, Jody Ray Bennett writes for ISN Security Watch.

By Jody Ray Bennett for ISN Security Watch

For almost five years the world has watched hundreds of thousands of Darfur civilians be massacred, raped and displaced from their families and homes.

Even though world leaders have issued calls to action, such as the 2005 international manifesto Responsibility to Protect (R2P), which called for states responsible for widespread harm to its population to face repercussions, the international community has been slow to respond to crisis in Darfur. Two years after the issuing of the R2P, approximately 200,000 to 400,000 Dafuris were dead and 2.5 million displaced.

As the US stretches its own forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, it has also been politically unable to justify the invasion of yet another Islamic country. China, Sudan’s closest economic, political and military ally, has failed to respond to the ongoing genocide despite its ability to do so.

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Maritime Security: Major Shipping Company to Sail Around Africa to Avoid Gulf of Aden

Filed under: Africa,Maritime Security — Tags: , — Matt @ 12:30 PM

    I caught this little chunk of story, at the end of another story I was reading and thought it was interesting.  So will other parts of Africa catch on, and just hijack these vessels on the other side of the block?  Pirates operate off the West Coast of Africa too.  We’ll see how it goes for them.  –Head Jundi

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November 19,2008

By Sam Dolnick

……….On Tuesday, a major Norwegian shipping group, Odfjell SE, ordered its more than 90 tankers to sail around Africa rather than use the Suez Canal after the seizure of the Saudi tanker Saturday.

“We will no longer expose our crew to the risk of being hijacked and held for ransom by pirates in the Gulf of Aden,” said Terje Storeng, Odfjell’s president and chief executive. 

Story Link Here 

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Maritime Security: Pirates Take Down a Super Tanker, Somalia

Filed under: Africa,Maritime Security,Somalia — Tags: , , — Matt @ 11:11 AM

 

     Thanks to Jeff for sending me this article.  This is significant.  These pirates took down a ‘super tanker’, at 450 nautical miles off the coast of Somalia!  Those are two records–the biggest ever ship taken, and the furthest out to sea hijacking.  They must be using a mother ship out there in order to do an operation like this.  

     The other interesting angle to this, is the shift of attacks further out to sea, mean a larger patrol area.  A herculean task, and I think this will change the thinking about the way piracy will be dealt with.  That security forces will have to escort each ship, or post a robust force on the ship itself in order to properly protect it.  To just post a security ship in the general area is not going to work, if pirates are willing to go so far out to sea.

   And with this subject, if you have been watching the show on History Channel called Shadow Force, the first two episodes have dealt with maritime operations.  Although what they are doing is busting illegal fishing operations off the coast of Liberia.  The cool thing about the operation, are the obstacles and challenges that they had to over come just to get up and running over there. They used a RIB, with a FLIR camera and an LRAD non-lethal sound weapon system. Cool show. –Head Jundi

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super tanker

The MV Sirius Star super tanker. 

Tanker taken to Somali pirate stronghold

U.S. and other naval forces decide — for now — against intervention

The Associated Press

updated 6:16 a.m. PT, Tues., Nov. 18, 2008

MOGADISHU, Somalia – Pirates who seized a Saudi supertanker loaded with $100 million in crude oil anchored the ship within sight of impoverished Somali fishing villages Tuesday, while the U.S. and other naval forces decided — for now — against intervention.

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Sunday, November 16, 2008

News: Ugandans Could Lose Iraq Jobs

Filed under: Africa,News — Tags: , , , — Matt @ 1:00 AM

    Boy, wouldn’t this be something if the Ugandans had to go home because of this deal?  If that did happen, there would be a mad scramble to fill those jobs–a lot of jobs.  The other thing about this is Dreshak.  I have heard nothing but bad things about those guys, and how they have treated their recruits. –Head Jundi

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Ugandans could lose Iraq jobs

By Fortunate Ahimbisibwe

Saturday, 15th November, 2008 

 

OVER 5,000 Ugandans working as security guards in Iraq risk losing their

jobs following a business rivalry among recruiting agencies.

A Kampala businessman, Stanley Mutebi, has already secured a High Court

injunction against Dreshak International, one of the recruiting firms.

The injunction blocks Dreshak from carrying out any further recruitment and

also seeks to stop the firm from administering the Ugandans working in Iraq.

This would mean that the Ugandans would have to be returned home, according

to reliable source.

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