Pirates have been operating off Somalia's coast for about two decades Somali pirates have released a Bangladesh-flagged vessel and its 23-member crew after a ransom was reportedly paid.

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

Some of the one hundred convicted Somali pirates serving jail terms at the Shimo La Tewa Maximum Security Prison in Mombasa County. [File, Standard] Somali piracy was a major threat to the region ...

When I visited the country last year, Somali pirates were attacking scores of ... Except it's all too real. Later that morning, we visit Medina Hospital, as we have every day since our arrival ...

While this still represented an improvement over the 212 Somali pirate attacks recorded in 2011, Bruwer said that a resurgence in attacks over the past year was concerning and spoke to the fact ...

In the middle of the South Pacific: modern pirates are making the waterways that are so important for international trade unsafe. In order to deal with this ever-growing threat, a mercenary group ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia -- Seven people died and six others were injured after a suicide bomber detonated an unidentified device ...

Just days earlier, Seychelles defence forces reported freeing a group of fishermen from pirates. The waters off the Somali coast were previously a hotbed for piracy, but it had all but stopped ...

Police said seven people died and six others were injured after a suicide bomber detonated an unidentified device at a café ...

At least seven people died and six were wounded after a suicide bomber blew himself up in a restaurant in Somalia's capital on Thursday, local police said in a statement.

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