We’ve all been there. That lucid moment when all of a sudden you look around and realize, “I am wasting my life right now and it’s time for a change.” [...]
By JD, Somalia Report Police from Somalia’s semi-autonomous region of Puntland seized 43 pirates during operations against pirates in the village of Garacad in Puntland’s Mudug region, senior officials said. Officials [...]
The MV Iceberg 1 is a Panama-flagged Roll on-Roll off ship that was attacked and overrun by pirates on 29 March 2010. Since that time, the crew has been left [...]
In what may be the first reported case of Somalis doing their part to prevent Somalia-based piracy operations, a speed boat carrying 7 men, AK-47s, RPGs, and ammo were seized by [...]
Insiders tell how pirates are destroying the system that allows them to flourish. By Robert Young Pelton, Somalia Report Somalia Report has identified a trend that indicates that the $4.5M ransom [...]
By Jama Deperani, Somalia Report Local fishermen in Somalia will now wear uniforms to differentiate them from the pirates, according to officials from Puntland, a semi-autonomous region of Somalia known [...]
Go figure… I can’t imagine the decision to cancel a sailboat race between Cape Town and Abu Dhabi would have been a tough call considering the dire warning by the [...]
M/V MARIDA MARGUERITE. MarineTraffic.com via EUNAVFOR NORFOLK, Va.—A man accused of negotiating on behalf of Somali pirates in the deadly hijacking of a U.S. yacht has been indicted on charges [...]
Today’s Pirates Have Their Own Stock Exchange; Western powers patrol the seas but do little to stop pirate financing. By Avi Jorisch Pirates are on a hot streak this season. [...]
This weeks incident photos comes to us via the USS Bulkeley which, over the weekend, successfully freed the Japanese-owned tanker M/V Guanabara and her crew of 24 from pirate control [...]
At approximately 0600Z on 28 February, the Bulk Cargo Carrier MV DOVER was pirated approximately 260 nautical miles North East of Salalah in the North Arabian Sea. The Panamanian flagged, [...]
Days before the Quest set off on its doomed trek across the Indian Ocean, Bill Rouse, a Texan attempting to sail around the world, made Quest owner Scott Adam an [...]
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