Piracy in Somalia

2008 over $150 million dollars was collected in ransoms. The economy is already down in Somalia but it is getting worse. The pirates attack United Nations ships that are bringing food to the Somali refugees. When this happens the population decreases due to hunger and there are many weak people. The weak cannot work to bring the economy back up. Recently the Security Council wants to pass more laws about piracy. Most of these laws are concerning human rights. The pirates are also messing up the vessels

Ransom on the High Seas: The case of Piracy in Somalia The pirates in the coast of Somalia came to activity at the start of 2003. The main reason that provoked local Somalis to start attacking foreign cargo ships was the civil war that broke out in 1991. The Somali Civil War leads to an unstable government that lacked on authority, leadership and control to stop the rising attacks between local groups. From there, Somalia went on downhill; its population decreased over two thirds from 1991 to

To create terrorism is to create unlawful violence or war that is intentionally targeted to civilians. It can also be defined as a systematic use of terror to induce violent attacks that often lead to war. The network of Al-Qaeda, created by terrorist leader Osama Bin Laden, was formed by the World Islamic Front for Jihad against Jews and their Crusaders. Right after its creation, there were attacks at the US embassies in Kenya in 1998. Bin Laden then planned for the attacks after 2000, as there

The purpose of this essay is to present an argument for the notion that state failure around countries with weak institutions can be a regional phenomenon to a large extent. The spread of conflict across borders has sometimes destabilised entire regions, as conflict can often be contagious especially amongst states with weak governmental institutions. In this essay, I will illustrate regional state failure using the case studies of the countries in the Horn of Africa, The great Lakes region of Africa

The goal of the paper is to provide an outline of terrorist threats in Africa with the end goal of advising counterterror operations on the continent. Countering the rise of militant extremism has central to U.S. strategy in the Middle East, but the same has not generally been true for Africa. A mix of communal tensions, radical Islamism, and anti-Americanism has produced a breeding ground for militancy. The most concentrated and organized terror threats in the region are composed of three main

African continent. For two decades, Somalia never had a national wide accepted leadership. The civil war in Somalia fueled by religious extremism has captured the attention of the African Union and the international community in general. The terror upsurge in Somalia greatly affected neighboring counties such as Kenya and Ethiopia and eventually forced those states involve in conflict. Al Shabab, a Somalia based terrorist organization not only undermined Somalia security but also terrorized the East

This was a measure that was used to reduce the chances of unlawful attacks on the globe. U.S partnered with the international community to empower weak states and prevent emergence of terrorism. To date, this can be seen in Libya, Cote Devore and Somalia where the states have no proper governments. The international troops have been deployed in the above states to ensure that terrorists do not utilize such loopholes to attack the citizens. Fighting the War on Terror War on terror is a global

respectively.” (UNCTAD). This here is just the cost of the ships. The merchandise they carry can cost hundreds of millions more on the largest of container vessels. This is obviously a huge target for any possible pirate and with poor countries like Somalia, the people there might see an opportunity for profit. Their tactics are nowadays is to hold the crew for ransom instead of taking the ship entirely. These ransoms can be upwards to tens of millions of dollars. Obviously, countries and companies don’t

In the 21st century the Indian Ocean security has evolved to be multifaceted and dynamic. The emerging threats and challenges which are typically common to the entire region, range across a wide spectrum with transnational maritime crimes such as piracy, illegal immigration, human trafficking, smuggling and illegal unregulated and unreported (IUU) fishing activities at one end to the more serious challenges of natural disasters, climate change and even interstate maritime disputes erupting into fully

The other conflicts in the area, Afghanistan and Somalia, are not as important but remain a source of instability to the region. The USCENTCOM second element is the myriad tensions in the region. The first is the control of the maritime commercial line of communication in the Strait of Hormuz. This strait