Tanker with 17 sailors `disappears´ in Africa´s pirate-infested Gulf of Guinea
(WorldNews France)

A tanker with 17 Georgian sailors on-board has been missing for a week off the coast of Gabon in the Gulf of Guinea, a notorious area for sea piracy, officials said. The ship “disappeared� from tracking screens on August 14, and the potential search area was between the Gabonese coast and the Sao Tome and Principe archipelago, a regional military source said Tuesday. Specialist websites list the 121-metre (396-feet) ship, the Pantelena, as a 7,000-tonne, 12-year-old dual-purpose oil......