Piracy still operating

Those who cannot operate terror, operates piracy. This Dictum is real.

Those chountries that cannot have a full armed militia, in general resulted for bankrupt or social/economical backlash, the criminal activities search for other means to gain territory. There is a dicotomical gap between the rich and poor, and the police state and criminal activities. 

Criminal activities search for sea conquests to operate, stealing and causing terror over vessels, general civilian cruises or container vessels, that have material wells to steal and sell at black market.

The 'terroristic-considered' activity is very far from a real terroristic group. The group operates with light guns, or cutting tools to cause fear. There are few long range rifles and no great fire power with them, few AKs or ehavy machine guns with a limited quantity of bullets.

Revolvers and pistols are well used too.

The modus operandi is focused at stealing and black market commerce, not with political ends.

The importance of piracy after the War on Terror was that they changed the focus of the modus operandi of PMCs and gave new meaning to PMCs keep operating till the hybrid wars and proxy wars started.

PMCs during a period, operated in anti-piracy and vessel escorts, with in general ex-naval personal operating overseas, following the vessels or cruses well armed to fight piracy. 

In general pirates are from failed countries, like Somalia or eastern Africa, close to Indian Ocean, closed to other coutries that have civil unrest and terroristic presence, that sell mercenaries weapons at the black market or change for the stealing products.

Many times, terrorists without operation join them as criminal or mercenaries to keep some gains to help the core of the group in future actions.

International security changed some private laws to operate against it in international waters, that States has no legal rights over the sea territory, to justify military actions of PMCs actions against piracy.

Pirates kill one, kidnap four in Gabon capital attack

Pirates attacked four ships in Libreville harbour, government spokesman says.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/12/pirates-kill-kidnap-gabon-capital-attack-191222180429866.html

A Gabonese captain was killed and four Chinese sailors abducted on Saturday in Gabon's capital, Libreville, following an attack by pirates in the city's harbour, the government has said.

"Pirate attacks were perpetrated ... against four ships," government spokesman Edgard Anicet Mboumbou Miyakou said on Sunday.

Pirate attacks are unusual in the harbour, but extremely frequent in the surrounding Gulf of Guinea.

The West African country's defence and security forces were deployed "to secure the area and track down the perpetrators with the cooperation of Interpol and sub-regional bodies," Miyakou said.

Two of the ships were fishing vessels belonging to Sigapeche, a Sino-Gabonese company which employs the four Chinese sailors.

The third ship belongs to the maritime transport company Satram, based in Port-Gentil, Gabon, while the fourth is a cargo vessel flying a Panamanian flag.

The Gulf of Guinea, which stretches some 5,700km (3,500 miles) from Senegal to Angola, has become the world's new epicentre of pirate attacks, lootings and kidnappings for ransom.

From January to September, 82 percent of maritime kidnappings in the world occurred in the Gulf of Guinea, according to the International Maritime Bureau.

Early last month two Filipinos, a Greek and a Georgian, crew members on an oil tanker, were abducted off of the Togolese capital Lome and nine Filipino seamen were snatched off of Cotonou, the economic capital of Benin.