After Red Sea threats, ships now face rise in Somali piracy
SIMON MARKS, MOHAMED SHEIKH NOR Bloomberg News
Piracy off Somalia’s coast has increased since maritime security was disrupted by Houthi militants’ attacks on ships in the Red Sea in response to the Israel-Hamas war.
The Horn of Africa nation has recorded five assaults on commercial ships off its coast since November, Hassan Mohamed Afrah, the director of Somalia’s maritime agency, said by…