Pirates of Puntland - BBC Africa

At its peak, the cost of Somali piracy to the global economy was around $7 billion, which included hundreds of millions of dollars in ransoms. That was just over a decade ago. Since then, international security patrols in the Gulf of Aden and Indian Ocean shipping lane all but eliminated Somali piracy. But those efforts have been stretched over the last year as Houthi rebels in Yemen started attacking ships from the other side of the Gulf of Aden. And in recent months, there’s been a resurgence of piracy off the coast of the autonomous Somali region of Puntland. BBC Africa travelled there to speak exclusively with some of the pirates themselves. #somalipirates #puntland Subscribe: http://bit.ly/subscribetoafrica Website: https://www.bbc.com/africa Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bbcnewsafrica/ Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/bbcafrica/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bbcafrica/