Abstract

In strong recrudescence for a few years, maritime piracy off Somalia has had constrained the “international community” to intervene militarily to make safe the maritime ways forwarding in the area. This analysis draws up an inventory of fixtures of maritime piracy in the Gulf of Aden (legal aspects, origins, stakes, modus operandi) as well as answers brought by the “international community”.

Key words : Piracy, Somalia, Gulf of Aden, Horn of Africa, EUNAVFOR, Atalanta, Ocean Shield, Russia.