We at the IIIrd World have been covering the issue of Somali piracy since it first became a major international issue last year. Here are some of the latest developments on the international efforts to control and understand them. Economist: TWO years ago Somalia’s weak transitional government agreed to let foreign navies chase pirates into [...]
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Economist: Somalia’s pirates – A long war of the waters
Posted: January 8, 2010 by treylord in Economist, Pirates, Somalia0
Economist: Somalia's pirates – A long war of the waters
Posted: January 8, 2010 by treylord in Economist, Pirates, Somalia, UncategorizedWe at the IIIrd World have been covering the issue of Somali piracy since it first became a major international issue last year. Here are some of the latest developments on the international efforts to control and understand them. Economist: TWO years ago Somalia’s weak transitional government agreed to let foreign navies chase pirates into [...]
Pirates in Somalia: Arrrrr They Helping or Hurting Conservation?
Posted: June 24, 2009 by treylord in Environment, Nature Conservancy, Pirates, SomaliaNature Conservancy: Piracy off the coast of Somalia may lack the romance of “Pirates of the Caribbean,” yet daily media reports still serve up a steady diet of adventure on the high seas — from rag-tag buccaneers wielding assault rifles and rocket launchers to captive sailors being rescued. Some reports cite experts who trace today’s [...]
Time Magazine: How Somalia’s Fishermen Became Pirates
Posted: June 24, 2009 by treylord in Pirates, Somalia, Time MagazoneTime: Amid the current media frenzy about Somali pirates, it’s hard not to imagine them as characters in some dystopian Horn of Africa version of Waterworld. We see wily corsairs in ragged clothing swarming out of their elusive mother ships, chewing narcotic khat while thumbing GPS phones and grappling hooks. They are not desperate bandits, [...]
Time Magazine: How Somalia's Fishermen Became Pirates
Posted: June 24, 2009 by treylord in Pirates, Somalia, Time Magazone, UncategorizedTime: Amid the current media frenzy about Somali pirates, it’s hard not to imagine them as characters in some dystopian Horn of Africa version of Waterworld. We see wily corsairs in ragged clothing swarming out of their elusive mother ships, chewing narcotic khat while thumbing GPS phones and grappling hooks. They are not desperate bandits, [...]
Economist: An awkward absence
Posted: May 26, 2009 by treylord in Economist, Environment, Ocean, PiratesEconomist: YOU do not see many milestones on the floor of the ocean, but one was passed this week. May 13th was the deadline for the submission of new claims to the seabed, and from pole to pole coastal states have been asserting ownership of vast chunks of continental shelf in a rush for territory [...]
WP: Somalia’s Godfathers: Ransom-Rich Pirates – Coastal Villagers Find Blessings And Ruin at Hands of Sea Robbers
Posted: April 20, 2009 by treylord in Africa, Economy, Pirates, Somalia, Washington PostNAIROBI — The young Somali couple had plans. Ilka Ase Mohamed and the love of his life, tall, bright-eyed Fatima Mukhtar, were going to leave their little fishing town of Harardhere, attend university and, when Mohamed had enough cows for a dowry, get married. But a little over a year ago, the woman Mohamed still [...]
WP: Somalia’s Godfathers: Ransom-Rich Pirates – Coastal Villagers Find Blessings And Ruin at Hands of Sea Robbers
Posted: April 20, 2009 by treylord in Africa, Economy, Pirates, Somalia, Washington PostNAIROBI — The young Somali couple had plans. Ilka Ase Mohamed and the love of his life, tall, bright-eyed Fatima Mukhtar, were going to leave their little fishing town of Harardhere, attend university and, when Mohamed had enough cows for a dowry, get married. But a little over a year ago, the woman Mohamed still [...]
WP: Somalia's Godfathers: Ransom-Rich Pirates – Coastal Villagers Find Blessings And Ruin at Hands of Sea Robbers
Posted: April 20, 2009 by treylord in Africa, Economy, Pirates, Somalia, Uncategorized, Washington PostNAIROBI — The young Somali couple had plans. Ilka Ase Mohamed and the love of his life, tall, bright-eyed Fatima Mukhtar, were going to leave their little fishing town of Harardhere, attend university and, when Mohamed had enough cows for a dowry, get married. But a little over a year ago, the woman Mohamed still [...]
NYtimes: Somali Pirates Tell Their Side: They Want Only Money
Posted: April 13, 2009 by treylord in Africa, NYtimes, Pirates, SomaliaThe Somali pirates who hijacked a Ukrainian freighter loaded with tanks, artillery, grenade launchers and ammunition said in an interview on Tuesday that they had no idea the ship was carrying arms when they seized it on the high seas. “We just saw a big ship,” the pirates’ spokesman, Sugule Ali, said in a telephone [...]
NYtimes: Somali Pirates Tell Their Side: They Want Only Money
Posted: April 13, 2009 by treylord in Africa, NYtimes, Pirates, SomaliaThe Somali pirates who hijacked a Ukrainian freighter loaded with tanks, artillery, grenade launchers and ammunition said in an interview on Tuesday that they had no idea the ship was carrying arms when they seized it on the high seas. “We just saw a big ship,” the pirates’ spokesman, Sugule Ali, said in a telephone [...]
WP: Kill the Pirates
Posted: April 13, 2009 by treylord in International, International Development, Pirates, Somalia, Washington PostWashington Post: With the rescue of American Richard Phillips from the hands of pirates yesterday, there was a blip of good news from the Indian Ocean, but it remains a scandal that Somali pirates continue to routinely defeat the world’s naval powers. And worse than this ongoing demonstration of cowardice is the financing of terrorists [...]
WP: Kill the Pirates
Posted: April 13, 2009 by treylord in International, International Development, Pirates, Somalia, Washington PostWashington Post: With the rescue of American Richard Phillips from the hands of pirates yesterday, there was a blip of good news from the Indian Ocean, but it remains a scandal that Somali pirates continue to routinely defeat the world’s naval powers. And worse than this ongoing demonstration of cowardice is the financing of terrorists [...]
Huffington Post: Johann Hari – You Are Being Lied to About Pirates
Posted: April 9, 2009 by treylord in Africa, International, Pirates, Somalia“Who imagined that in 2009, the world’s governments would be declaring a new War on Pirates? As you read this, the British Royal Navy – backed by the ships of more than two dozen nations, from the US to China – is sailing into Somalian waters to take on men we still picture as parrot-on-the-shoulder [...]
Huffington Post: Johann Hari – You Are Being Lied to About Pirates
Posted: April 9, 2009 by treylord in Africa, International, Pirates, Somalia“Who imagined that in 2009, the world’s governments would be declaring a new War on Pirates? As you read this, the British Royal Navy – backed by the ships of more than two dozen nations, from the US to China – is sailing into Somalian waters to take on men we still picture as parrot-on-the-shoulder [...]
K’Naan on Somali Pirate Situation
Posted: April 9, 2009 by treylord in Africa, Hip Hop, K'Naan, Pirates, Somalia, VideoTags: Hip Hop
K'Naan on Somali Pirate Situation
Posted: April 9, 2009 by treylord in Africa, Hip Hop, K'Naan, Pirates, Somalia, Uncategorized, VideoTags: Hip Hop
