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Mohamed Abdi Hassan, aka “Afweyne” or “Big Mouth,” Somalia’s Most Successful Pirate Announces Retirement Due to Decline in Pirateable Ships

January 11, 2013
Africa
Afweyne
Big Mouth
Economy
Global Economy
international waters
Mohamed Abdi Hassan
oil tanker
piracy
pirates
Saudi Arabia
Sirius Star
Somali coast
Somali pirates
Somalia

The world economy is taking a toll on Somali pirates as Somalia’s most successful pirate announces his retirement because it is no longer profitable for him to continue. Mohamed Abdi Hassan catapulted to fame in 2008 when he and his crew seized the Sirius Star, a Saudi Arabian tanker loaded with $100 million worth of oil and roughly equivalent in […]

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Pirates in North Korea? Chinese Fishermen Held Hostage in DPRK

May 17, 2012
abduction
Asia
Beijing
China
East Asia
fishermen
fishing boats
gunboat
hostage situation
hostages
international crisis
International Relations
kidnapped
Korea
Korean Peninsula
North Korea
People's Republic of China
pirates
PRC
Pyongyang
Yellow Sea

A mix of 29 Chinese and North Korean fishermen were taken hostage by armed men on a gunboat while fishing in the Yellow Sea between the People’s Republic of China and the Korean peninsula. It was not immediately clear if the hostages were held by North Korean authorities or an unaffiliated group. Thus far there […]