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How to keep Somali pirates at bay

It was placing well-armed former military men on board that did more than anything else to put a stop to the multi-billion dollar business of piracy off Somalia. In the week when a ship was seized in Somali waters for the first time since 2012, our security correspondent Frank Gardner, talking to Peter Hunt, recalls a sea-voyage he made under the protection of armed guards.
Photo: Anti-piracy armed guards on a merchant vessel in the waters off Somalia
Credit: Frank Gardner

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