Somali Pirates????????



Hi I'm an 8th grade girl and I look on the news and I hear about Somali Pirates. I looked it up and they are pirates with high tech gear that take hostages and demand high ransoms. They do this in Somalia's coast because it does not have a strong central government and it is impoverished. Why in recent news...
You've got a great start on understanding the phenomenon, and you express yourself very well! :o)   

  

Somali piracy has been in the news a lot based on the huge ransoms the pirates are demanding (and getting), the 200+ hostages they still hold, the dithering of world governments in how to deal with a failed state and its pirates, and (of course) the riveting news story about the capture, detention and now the spectacular saving of Captain Phillips.   

  

Some "reading" that might help give some background:   

<http://rss.msnbc.msn.com/id/28158455/>   

[http://www.naval-technology.com/features...](http://www.naval-technology.com/features/feature47566/)   

[http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db90...](http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/KKAA-7K28E7?OpenDocument)
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