- Latest Popular Stories, Instablogs Community by Abdirahman19

Somali gunmen renounce piracy

Abdirahman — Tue, 26 May 2009 04:23:13 +0000

Around 200 Somali pirates are reported to have renounced piracy at a meeting in northern Somalia.

Members of the group met local leaders and Somali expatriates in Eyl, in the autonomous region of Puntland, and promised to halt their activities.

Pirate representative Abshir Abdullah told the BBC he urged other groups to free ships in return for amnesty.

Somalia: The World's Most Utterly Failed State

Abdirahman — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 19:08:12 +0000

TIPPED off by friends in ports from Odessa to Mombasa, Somali pirates captured a Ukrainian freighter, the MV Faina, in the Gulf of Aden and steered it to Somalia’s coast. At first they demanded $20m for the release of ship and crew. The captain died, apparently of “hypertension”, and several pirates may have then killed each other after a quarrel.