somali piracy

By Abdiqani Hassan BOSASSO, Somalia, March 24 (Reuters) – Pirates have seized control of a Somali fishing boat to use as a base from which to attack

By Abdiqani Hassan BOSASSO, Somalia, March 21 (Reuters) – The head of anti-piracy operations in the semi-autonomous Puntland region of Somalia said he

By Abdiqani Hassan BOSASSO, March 19 (Reuters) – Somali officials whose forces freed a hijacked oil tanker and its eight Sri Lankan crew said on Sunday

The hijacking of a tanker off Somalia’s coast shows the threat pirates still pose to one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes, a risk that may also

(Reuters) Somali pirates who seized a Comoros-flagged oil tanker have released the ship and its eight Sri Lankan crew, bringing the first hijacking since 2012

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