Mogadishu, 18 August 2026 Nineteen countries that signed the Jeddah Amendment to the Djibouti Code of Conduct have backed a proposal to create a Combined DCoC Task Force to tackle piracy and armed attacks on ships in the Western Indian Ocean and Gulf of Aden.
The signatories are Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Ethiopia, France, Jordan, Kenya, Madagascar, Maldives, Mauritius, Mozambique, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Seychelles, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, the United Arab Emirates and Yemen.
The plan was proposed by the DCoC Steering Committee after…
