| Publication |
2009.
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| Summary/Abstract |
Piracy has flourished in Somalia because of its 20-year-old power vacuum and the lack of a central government capable of controlling its entire territory. Somalia's population lives in poverty, its agricultural production and indus-tries are weak. People seize at any opportunity to earn a living, and this is exploited by the bandits that lord it over in a considerable strip of the country. About 3.5 million of Somalis (or approximately 40% of the entire population) subsist on food aid sent by the UN and some other international organizations. But the pirates are now intercepting ships headed for Somalia under the UN World Food Program.
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