BBC NEWS | Africa | Somali gunmen ‘renounce piracy’

Around 200 Somali pirates are reported to have renounced piracy at a meeting in northern Somalia.

BBC NEWS | Africa | ‘It’s a pirate’s life for me’

A 25-year-old Somali pirate has told the BBC’s Mohamed Olad Hassan by telephone from the notorious den of Harardhere in central Somalia why he became a sea bandit. Dahir Mohamed Hayeysi says he and his big-spending accomplices are seen by many as heroes.