The Somali President, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, has granted amnesty to hundreds of young Somalis – a total of 959 pirates, Reuters reports. According to a regional official, the move has been made to limit the pirate threat towards shipping at the Horn of Africa but the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) does not approve of the Somali solution.
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