Foreign navies have played a key role in curbing piracy off Somalia's coast, writes the BBC's Anne Soy. On a beach in Hordeia on the northern coast of Somalia, I asked a former pirate what ...

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

That was when armed Somali pirates scoured the waters, forcefully boarding vessels and raking in millions of dollars by demanding ransoms. That died down and all but disappeared once extensive ...

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 rose by fourteen percent towards the end of last year, largely around the territorial waters off Somalia. According to the International Maritime Bureau, pirates attack different kinds of ...

This behaviour is in start contrast to the bravado of the pirates who used to strut around this charming, ancient port nestled between arid mountains on Somalia’s Indian Ocean coast. It has ...