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Sep
Navy, Air Force Foil Pirate Attack The Ghana Navy and Air Force have foiled an attempted pirate attack on an oil tanker off the coast of Takoradi. The oil tanker vessel, MT Hafnia Phoenix, escaped the pirate attack some 72 nautical miles off the coast of Takoradi last Tuesday after undertaking a manoeuvre to outwit an armed gang of pirates. The Denmark-flagged vessel, which was sailing from Lomé in Togo to Abidjan in Cote d’Ivoire, was attacked by the group of about 10 and riding in a skiff (river craft) carrying a ladder — known to be an essential tool…