Two Somali fishermen wearing big scarves over their heads to hide their faces glance around furtively as they walk into the room for a secret meeting to tell me why they have recently decided to ...

Attacks by Somali pirates have risen more in the past three months than at any other time during the past six years, ...

In one famous case a former pirate - Abdirahman ... Adado, a town in central Somalia where pirates once invested, earned the nicknamed "Blue City" because their newly built mansions often had ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Some of the one hundred convicted Somali pirates serving jail terms at the Shimo La Tewa ...

On a beach in Hordeia on the northern coast of Somalia, I asked a former pirate what attracted him to piracy in the first place. The man, who wanted to remain anonymous, told me he was originally ...

Two Somali fishermen wearing big scarves over their heads to hide their faces glance around furtively as they walk into the room for a secret meeting to tell me why they have recently decided to ...

Foreign ships arrived — as did Somali pirates who targeted them. By the early 2010s, Somali piracy had declined. A main reason for this was the entry of international navies sent into Somali ...