UN Official Inaugurates Anti-piracy Information Centre in Kenya

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–31 March 2011 – The head of the United Nations maritime agency today in the Kenyan port city of Mombasa commissioned the first of three planned information-sharing centres designed to help fight the growing scourge of piracy in the Indian Ocean and the Gulf of Aden.

The centre in Mombasa, which was opened by Efthimios E. Mitropoulos, the Secretary-General of the UN International Maritime Organization (IMO), is co-housed with the Regional Maritime…