By Abdiqani Hassan (Reuters) A volatile buildup of weapons and resentment along the northern Somali coast culminated in the hijack of an oil freighter this

By Abdiqani Hassan (Reuters) Somali maritime forces have exchanged gunfire with the hijackers of an oil tanker in the semi-autonomous region of Puntland,

By Katharine Houreld NAIROBI, March 14 (Reuters) – Pirates have hijacked an oil tanker with eight Sri Lankan crew on board, Somali authorities said on

A Comoros-flagged bunker tanker with eight crew members has been pirated off Somalia’s north coast, the EU Naval Force (EU

The European Union is marking eight years of counter-piracy naval operations off the coast of Somalia protecting World Food Programme vessels and international

The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) has welcomed the extension of the counter-piracy naval operation EUNAVFOR Operation Atalanta through 2018, calling

BRUSSELS, Nov 28 (Reuters) – The European Union’s naval mission will keep patrolling for pirates off the coast of Somalia for another two years, to

(Reuters)NATO has ended its Indian Ocean counter-piracy mission after a sharp fall in attacks, the alliance said on Wednesday, as it shifts resources to

The United Nations is calling for another year of international naval operations to combat piracy off the coast of Somalia more than three years since the last

By Jonathan Saul LONDON, Nov 8 (Reuters) – Merchant vessels sailing through busy shipping lanes between Somalia and Yemen may be underestimating the risk

By Ed Stoddard CAPE TOWN, Nov 7 (Reuters) – Somalia looks more likely to strike oil than gas in its long pursuit of offshore riches, making it easier for

Somali pirates launched their first attacked on a merchant vessel in more than two and a half years, the European Union’s counter piracy operation

By Abdi Sheikh MOGADISHU, Oct 22 (Reuters) – Somali pirates have freed 26 Asian sailors held captive in a small fishing village for more than four years

A Mauritian Court on Friday overturned an earlier ruling and convicted twelve men of piracy over a January 2013 attack on the containership MSC Jasmine in the

Another attempted boarding of a commercial ship in the Gulf of Aden shows that pirates are still active in the region, at least off the coast of Yemen. The

PARIS, March 29 (Reuters) – Seven Somali men accused of hijacking a French yacht in an assault in which its owner was killed and his wife abducted in the

By Paul Richardson (Bloomberg) — Ships traveling through waters off the coast of Somalia face an increased risk of piracy this year, fostered by

By Abdiqani Hassan BOSASSO, Somalia, Nov 23 (Reuters) – Somali pirates have hijacked an Iranian fishing vessel with 15 crew members, a Somali official

By Joseph Akwiri MOMBASA, Nov 18 (Reuters) – East Africa’s biggest port of Mombasa will spend 100 million shillings ($980,392.16) to build a new

  By Ilya Gridneff (Bloomberg) — Piracy that caused havoc to international shipping off Somalia’s coast over the past decade may return if illegal