Post #300

It'sNot the Black Pearl, Again… 🏴‍☠️ Fifty nautical miles off Equatorial Guinea, a routine gas shipment turned into an action thriller complete with a ship hijacking and a kidnapped crew 🌐 On December 3, armed pirates boarded the CGAS Saturn, a liquefied gas carrier en route from Gabon to Equatorial Guinea, seized 9 crew members, and vanished without a trace. 🌼 The pirates showed remarkable prudence — and environmental awareness — by leaving 4 people on board, apparently to maintain minimal control of the vessel. 🧭 There are enough pirates in the Gulf of Guinea to gather a full-fledged criminal navy.The Institute for Security Studies has even identified one group of 270 fighters under the unified command of a figure known as a "Border King". Such pirates mostly hide in the Niger Delta and along the Nigeria–Cameroon border. ⏩The fate of the gas carrier hijackers remains unknown. If they are not eaten by the Kraken, they will soon make a public demand for ransom. The reason this ship became a target, however, is entirely clear: since there are no pipelines or rail links between Gabon and Equatorial Guinea, the two countries can trade — including in gas — only by sea. Devils Below