Over seven years, the dirty cash from piracy in Somalia has fuelled criminal ... to illicit international flows of money,” says the report titled Pirate Trails: Tracking the Illicit Financial ...

Foreign ships arrived — as did Somali pirates who targeted them ... “When they get money, alcohol floods in – as well as weapons and it has a devastating impact. It’s the youth that ...

A maritime piracy attack occurred on the night of Jan. 31 in Gabonese waters, highlighting ongoing security concerns in the ...

Rather than spending money it has never had on advanced ... access to its shores and coastal waters at a time when pirates based in Somalia and Puntland, a semiautonomous region directly south ...

Somali piracy will remain unprofitable. It remains to be seen if the ransom demand for the Iranian fishing vessel Almeraj 1 will succeed. However, pirates don't appear to have made any money from ...

Russia and Iran like to tout themselves as America's largest and most determined enemies, but everyone in the international community knows few geopolitical beefs run deeper than the United States ...

This behaviour is in stark 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 ...

On March 15, 2024, an Indian Navy long-range maritime patrol intercepted the Ruen about 260 nautical miles east of Somalia.

a territory in Somalia’s northeast. The pirates who took the ship later demanded a ransom of $10 million. It was not immediately clear if the money was paid. The embassy statement said “the ...