Sources: CNN
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
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
Somali pirates hijack a Malaysian cargo vessel with 23 crew members 900 miles off the coast of Somalia. 2010-11-29
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 seize the Russian oil tanker Moscow University with 23 people on board, 500 miles off the Somali coast. 2010-05-5
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
Pirates off the coast of Somalia seize a North Korean-flagged cargo ship south of Yemen. 2010-02-3