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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/03/14/somali- pirates-just-hijacked-a-commercial-ship-for-the-first-time-in-five- years/?utm_term=.d76a551fb5fd
In 2010 and 2011, groups of armed Somali men were hijacking merchant
vessels off Somalia's coast at an almost daily pace. Thousands of hostages
of myriad nationalities were taken, and billions of dollars were lost on ransoms, damages and delayed shipments.
The crisis was so severe that a naval task force with more than two dozen vessels from European Union countries, the United States, China, Russia,
India and Japan banded together to restore order to one of the world's
busiest shipping routes. They largely succeeded. In 2015, there were 17
pirate attacks near Somalia, down from 151 in 2011. Many of those attacks
were on smaller fishing boats from nearby countries, mostly by disgruntled Somali fishermen, but not commercial ships.
Until Tuesday.
Somali officials acknowledged that the Aris 13, an oil tanker, had been escorted to the Somali coast by at least eight and perhaps as many as
dozens of armed men on two small skiffs. Reports from organizations that monitor piracy could not conclusively identify which flag the ship was
flying or where it was owned, but Sri Lanka's Foreign Ministry confirmed
that eight of its nationals were on board as crew. The ship was on its way south to Mogadishu, Somalia's capital.
The attack originated in the Puntland region, which is semiautonomous.
“The vessel’s captain reported to the company they were approached by two skiffs and that one of them could see armed personnel on board,” an unidentified Middle East-based official told the Associated Press. “The
ship changed course quite soon after that report and is now anchored.”
The U.S. Navy's 5th Fleet oversees anti-piracy efforts along Somalia's
coast. Concerns about piracy's reemergence in the region have been growing
in concurrence with greater exploitation of Somalia's waters by foreigners engaged in illegal fishing. Deprived of a livelihood, some Somali
fishermen have turned back to hijacking to get by.
Salad Nur, described as a “local elder” by the Associated Press, said that
the men involved in Tuesday's hijacking had been searching for a
commercial vessel for days on the open water. “Foreign fishermen destroyed their livelihoods and deprived them of proper fishing,” Nur said.
Piracy is also on the rise on the other side of Africa. Armed groups based along Nigeria's coast have made that region the most dangerous for
seafarers. That coast is also a major oil shipping route. Now that oil
prices have dropped, pirates there have taken to kidnapping crew members
for ransom rather than siphoning off oil, as the abductions have proved
more lucrative.
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