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There are reports that up to a million was paid in ransom but this has not been confirmed. It is probable that at least some significant ransom was paid or the two would not have been released. Brennan tried to...

Somali pirates are back in the headlines after a Spanish trawler and its 36 member crew has thrust the issue of Somali piracy back into the spotlight. The vessel was released after a ransom payment exceeding $3m was agreed. Does...

It’s bad enough that the territory known as Somalia is in turmoil 365 days a year, but now the waters that surround the war savaged country are looming with want-to-be Jack Sparrows that seem intent on revenge. If we could...

The 112 years old man waited for the 17 year old girl to grow up before proposing to her – they are from the same village in Somalia. She is his sixth wife and he already has 18 children from...

An unnamed woman was stoned to death at Eel-boon in Wajid district, 330 kilometres southwest of Mogadishu, on Wednesday. She was sentenced by an Islamic court after she was found guilty of adultery. The woman was taken to a square,...

Somali pirates have seized a United Arab Emirates-flagged cargo ship loaded with weapons bound for the anarchic Horn of Africa nation in contravention of a U.N. arms embargo, maritime experts said Monday. Also Monday, the gunmen launched their longest range...

A 112 year-old Somalian man got married for the sixth time, to a 17-year-old girl. The wedding between Ahmed Muhamed Dore and Safia Abdulleh took place in Guriceel, in the Galguduud region of Somalia. Mr Dore and his teenage bride...

The home town of the pirates, Haradhere, is now celebrating a spending boom One of the pirates who took part in the negotiations for the release of the ‘Alakrana’ Basque tuna fishing boat and her crew has claimed that they...