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The Somali president urges everyone to donate funds to Somalia to help combat pirates.
2012-06-27

Six foreigners including two Britons and an American are jailed for lengthy terms in Somalia after the seizure of a plane containing $3.6 million in ransom for pirates.
2011-06-19

Security forces in Somalia seize two planes carrying ransom money for pirates, and detain six foreigners.
2011-05-24

South Korea will fly the bodies of eight Somali pirates killed in a commando raid on a freighter last month from Muscat, Oman, to Mogadishu, Somalia.
2011-02-16

The United Nations says pirates off the coast of Somalia are "outperforming" an international effort to stop them.
2010-11-10

The African Union calls on the United Nations Security Council to impose an air and naval blockade of Somalia to counter an Islamist Al-Shabaab militant insurgency and piracy.
2010-10-21

Somali pirates hijack a South Korean owned Kenyan registered fishing boat with 43 crew aboard.
2010-10-17

Somali pirates hijack a Marshall Islands-flagged ship with 18 Filipino sailors on board in the southern Red Sea.
2010-07-5

Piracy in Somalia: A South Korean warship catches up with an oil tanker that was hijacked by Somali pirates in the Indian Ocean.
2010-04-6

A Turkish ship is hijacked by Somali pirates more than 1,000 miles away from the coast of Somalia and closer to India.
2010-03-23