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Why is piracy picking up off Somalia’s coast again?

Name: Why is piracy picking up off Somalia’s coast again?
Start: 2026-08-31T14:45:12Z
Location: Somalia

Somalia · Rest of Africa region

lat/lon 2.046900, 45.318200 detected 2026-08-31T14:45:12Z updated 2026-08-31T14:45:12Z

Single-source report, not yet corroborated. Piracy is surging back off Somalia's coast, though not yet at the scale of its 2011 peak.

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Original source: RSS · Al Jazeera View original report ↗