Modern day piracy plagues the coast of Africa and reminds us that this once seemingly far off and distant crime is in fact a present reality. Acts of piracy off the coast of Africa have been going on since around 2005,[1] and got progressively worse...
This paper has identified two main causes of piracy namely problems with the illegal and Somalia’s failed status as a state, as a second problem. In order to fully comprehend the genesis of piracy in Somalia, one has to date back to a time when...
Introduction Formed in 1960 from a former British protectorate and an Italian colony, Somalia distorted into anarchy following the coup d’état of the military rule of President Siad Barre in 1991. As conflicting commanders tore the country apart into clan-based fiefdoms, an internationally-backed unity government...
Introduction Security issues have been active in the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden, and the Arabian Sea since the start of the Somali Civil War in the early 1990s. The Somali Pirate and the method and motivation of attacking commercial shipping and one Naval...