From the Field: On the frontlines of the UN’s counter-piracy efforts in eastern Africa

Laaska News Feberuary 05,2011

UNODC’s Alan Cole (right) with Kenya’s Commissioner of Prisons Isaya Osugo

UN News - 3 February 2011 –As the UN International Maritime Organization (IMO) launched its anti-piracy plan in London today, one person, Alan Cole, was paying particularly close attention to what it will mean on the ground.

Mr. Cole had good reason to be. He is the point man for the UN’s growing counter-piracy programme in eastern Africa, the