West Africa states to adopt anti-piracy code, maybe this month: IMO

Piracy is on the increase in the Gulf of Guinea region, which includes Africa's No. 1 oil producer Nigeria and is a significant source of commodities including cocoa for world markets.
In that region, commercial ships do not enjoy the protection of naval security that has dramatically reduced Somali piracy on the other side of Africa.
"Quite soon, probably before the end of this month, heads of states of West African nations will be meeting in Cameroon ... to try to adopt a new code of conduct for anti-piracy activities," Koji Sekimizu, secretary-general of the United Nations International Maritime Organisation (IMO), said on Tuesday.
The code of conduct, modeled on one adopted by East African and Arab Peninsula nations in 2009 to fight piracy in the Indian Ocean, would ask governments to arrest and prosecute suspected pirates, seize any vessels believed to have been used in acts of piracy and increase regional cooperation.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/04/us-piracy-westafrica-un-idUSBRE9530NA20130604