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Timothy Walker
@timwalker919
Maritime Project Leader and Senior Researcher @issafrica 🌍 Tweeting in own capacity, RTs are not an endorsement
Jul 14, 2021 • 16 tweets • 4 min read
1/ It's worthwhile scrutinising @IMB_Piracy reports for the stories, trends, and unresolved issues behind (beneath) the headlines and soundbites... 🌍🧵🏴‍☠️🚢⚓️🧵

#Piracy #maritimesecurity #Africa 2/ The one death and all 50 crew members kidnapped took place on for which the nearest coastal state was African. The current whereabouts and safety of 20 kidnapped sailors are not included in this report and this information needs to be urgently ascertained.
Apr 27, 2021 • 42 tweets • 10 min read
Remaining blind to the maritime dimensions of the Cabo Delgado insurgency creates strategic gaps for any action under SADC auspices. Therefore, I am glad to see that this aspect of the conflict is being given its due (or so it seems so far) #ISSMaritime🧵

dailymaverick.co.za/article/2021-0… While the prospects for adequate regional maritime security cooperation appear limited, maritime forces are set to play an important role in relation to conflict resolution efforts by land forces.
Apr 12, 2021 • 19 tweets • 6 min read
Interesting as I immediately thought of the fact that RENAMO received significant seaborne supply/support via Apartheid South African Navy and Recces - as outlined in detail in Iron Fist from the Sea by Arne Söderlund and Douw Steyn @JonathanBallPub Seaborne/maritime tactics and operations could be very important to the Cabo Delgado insurgency too. There are significant geopolitical and economic implications should the Mozambican government lose control over the Cabo Delgado coastal and offshore areas.
Apr 2, 2021 • 15 tweets • 6 min read
It is not hindsight to say that to keep open the best available means of escape, supply the increasing number of internally displaced people with aid, and to prevent hijackings of vessels around the Afungi peninsula is to gain and keep control of the coast and adjacent waters @KellyBMoss had great foresight last year - warning that the lack of control and vulnerability of islands and littoral waters surrendered the initiative to the insurgents and gave them strategic options they should never even be allowed to consider stableseas.org/maritime-terro…
Mar 29, 2021 • 26 tweets • 6 min read
Over 600,000 people have been displaced and over 4000 killed since 2017 in the conflict between Mozambique government and insurgent forces that is consuming Cabo Delgado in Mozambique. The recent attack on Palma should not have happened. A twitter thread follows... Image Last week insurgents attacked and overran a hotel outside Palma where a number of foreigners were trapped and an unknown killed when attempting to escape into the surrounding bush or when their convoy was ambushed.
Mar 19, 2021 • 17 tweets • 3 min read
Until quite recently South Africa acted out of a concern over how growing militarism and global geostrategic rivalries could overshadow regional maritime security concerns THREAD

SANDF to remain in Mozambique until next year to fight pirates news24.com/news24/southaf… via @News24 The Sereti Commission in 2013 heard that “it is much better for South Africa to play a meaningful role in our continent than to leave that open to people from outside the continent because we don’t have the capability”. (Former Chief of Naval Staff RADM Higgs). 2