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Somali President Offers Amnesty to Pirates

Somali President Offers Amnesty to Pirates

by | Feb 28, 2013 | World

Mogadishu, AFP—Somalia’s president has offered an amnesty to young pirates in a bid to end attacks off the Horn of Africa nation’s coast as he seeks to rebuild the war-torn country, he told AFP. “We have been negotiating with the pirates indirectly...