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As the piracy has grown, so have the ambitions of the pirates, who have begun to home in on tankers and bigger cargo vessels in the hopes of fetching larger ransom payments. Usually, a Somali pirate attack involves two or three speedboats, each carrying up to five armed men, but...
But the British raid only underscored the difficulty facing international military efforts to police the shipping lanes of East Africa. The vessel attacked by the marines was nothing more than a rickety old fishing dhow, and the eight men arrested are likely to be quickly replaced by hundreds of other...
Retired and active-duty military officers say commando raids on pirate vessels and the ports they use would stymie the buccaneers. "We know where these guys live and where their ships and boats operate from - it'd be a simple mission to take them out," says Anthony Zinni, a retired...
The Harvard sailing team wrapped up its fall season with a bang last weekend, enduring the most challenging of conditions to finish near the top of the field at the Atlantic Coast Championships. The women’s team, sailing in Washington, DC, navigated heavy winds to place fourth, while...
Somalia's problems have spilled beyond its borders, with a constant flow of refugees being smuggled in by leaky boats to Yemen and even more walking south to Kenya. There are more than 200,000 people crowded into the world's biggest refugee camp, at Dadaab, 62 miles (100 km...