NAIROBI — Armed guards and naval patrols are slowing piracy off the coast of Somalia, but on the across the continent in West Africa, ships face a different and perhaps more lethal threat.
Nairobi — The pirate captors of the Taiwanese trawler Shiuh Fu-1 took exceptionally violent steps to extract a $3 million ransom from the vessel’s owner in January.
NAIROBI — Mombasa, one of the busiest and economically important ports in sub-Saharan Africa, is not as busy as it used to be, as a result of the threat of piracy off the Indian Ocean coast of Somalia.
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