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

The United Nations delivers aid to parts of Somalia controlled by al-Shabab militants for the first time since they ended the ban on food supplies.
2011-07-17

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

Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, Prime Minister of the United Nations-backed Transitional Federal Government of Somalia, calls on UN agencies basing themselves in Kenya for safety reasons to move to Mogadishu within three months, citing the presence of UN agencies in "more dangerous" cities such as Kabul and Baghdad.
2011-04-5

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 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