After seven-week hijack, Puntland locals say they are victims of foreign trawlers. But China calls the attack ‘vicious’.

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

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 ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. MOMBASA COUNTY: The Somalia government now says it hopes Kenya will allow the transfer 122 ...

Foreign ships arrived — as did Somali pirates who targeted them. By the early 2010s, Somali piracy had declined. A main reason for this was the entry of international navies sent into Somali ...