Piracy off the coast of Somalia is seen as a rapidly growing problem that governments are struggling to solve, however pirates view themselves as ‘coastguards’ that protect their waters from illegal fishing and waste dumping, which they say has been overlooked by the west for years.

As a result of two decades of civil war, Somalia has long been plagued by lawlessness and extreme poverty that has killed more than tens of thousands of civilians, uprooted one million and left more than a third of the population in need of emergency aid.

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