Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. LII

No 45

9-Nov-2009

SOMALIA

Somali PM Announces Piracy Eradication Effort

The Prime Minister of the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) of Somalia, 'Umar 'Abd al-Rashid 'Ali Sharmarke, has announced a plan to eradicate Somali piracy by 2011.The announcement, made during a talk on 28 October at Chatham House in London, came in the aftermath of the presumed kidnapping of a British couple by Somali pirates last week. Piracy will be eradicated by offering a...