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The Dutch frigate HMS Evertsen takes part in Operation Atalanta, a campaign by the European Union to stop piracy off the Somali Coast, in 2009. (Photo by ROBIN UTRECHT/ANP/AFP via Getty Images)
AFRICA

Somali pirates are back in action, but a full scale return isn’t likely

The World Bank estimated that in 2011, at the height of attacks, the pirates cost the world economy US$18 billion

  • Peter Viggo Jakobsen
  • Troels Burchall Henningsen
4 min read