ILLICIT ACTIVITIES OF MARITIME PIRACY AND TERRORISM: THE COAST OF CAMEROON: BETWEEN THREAT, FIGHT AND OBSOLETE OF INTERNATIONAL CONVENTIONS
ILLICIT ACTIVITIES OF MARITIME PIRACY AND TERRORISM: THE COAST OF CAMEROON: BETWEEN THREAT, FIGHT AND OBSOLETE OF INTERNATIONAL CONVENTIONS

Summary/Abstract: Piracy and maritime terrorism: the coast of Cameroon between threats, fight and obsolescence of international conventions. The influence of piracy and maritime terrorism on the stability of States, regional balances, the commercial and financial implications make of these illicit activities a permanent concern and always worthy of great interest for research. Located in the heart of the Gulf of Guinea, the Cameroonian coast combines large reserves in natural resources and a large population diverse in the port cities. These assets are proof of the intensity of the commercial activities fortified by the presence of the sea which covers 71% of the Earth's surface and remains for a space free of any illicit same initiative. Also, since the 1980s, appearing certainly contradictory, piracy and maritime terrorism are a well-known reality and a threat in the territorial waters in the coastal towns of Cameroon. At the base of these acts of violence, beyond a set of political and socio-economic motivations exogenous, the porosity of the maritime borders, the mediocrity of the regional order, the weakness of the strategy of the State to control its space appear to the rank of the fundamental disadvantages of securing of the Cameroonian coast. Aware of the amplification of these attacks that remain over the years a threat to sovereignty of States and the risks of their neglect, Cameroon undertakes permanently maritime affirmative actions by the establishment of security mechanisms. However, they remain generally unproductive without an international legal framework of conventions available today and not updated that illustrate the opportunity that reveals the absence of rule of law for Cameroon to fight effectively against piracy and maritime terrorism still mentioned at the top of Yaoundé from June 2013.

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