![]() ![]() ![]() The capture of the American-crewed cargo ship Maersk Alabama in April 2009, the first United States ship to be hijacked in almost two centuries, catapulted the Somali pirates onto prime-time news. The recent bands of daring, ragtag pirates off the coast of Somalia, hijacking multimillion-dollar tankers owned by international shipping conglomerates, have brought the scourge of piracy into the modern era. ![]() For centuries, stories of pirates have captured imaginations around the world. Somalia is a place where a government has been built out of anarchy. Getting there from North America is a forty-five-hour, five-flight voyage through Frankfurt, Dubai, Djibouti, Bossaso (on the Gulf of Aden), and, finally, Galkayo. Caught up in a decades-long civil war, Somalia, along with Iraq and Afghanistan, has become one of the most dangerous countries in the world. Its history is as rich as the country is old. Somalia, on the tip of the Horn of Africa, has been inhabited as far back as 9,000 BC. ![]()
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