The claim of Maritime Insecurity in Somalia

After the collapse of the central government of Somalia, Maritime insecurity arose when piracy broke out in this short article, the author is not going to discuss why piracy created in Somalia but the writer is arguing, currently is there maritime insecurity which can compel the world to create a new mission of ant-piracy and related crimes or extend the mandate of the existed mission in Somalia?. In Somalia, when the government devastated a lot of organized crimes happened in the water of Somalia and the world decided to fight against these crimes, though there are different people saying there are reasons behind these groups committing such kind of crimes but in here we would discuss is there the need to extend the mandate of missions going on in Somali sea like Atlanta or to create new missions preventing such these crimes?

As we aware the world especially European union getting support with UN sent troops in Somali water giving them the mandate of fighting against organized groups committed crimes in the sea like pirates, robbery and etc. but the mandate of the mission has finished while any step to build the navy was not taken but the risk of piracy has ended or reduced and any successful ship hijack was not reported the last years. Turkey and a number of countries started to help Somalia, rebuilding of armies by training but the training of Somali navy is very limited and they do not have single warship and other equipment they require to operate As clearly seen the Somalis are required to think about rebuilding their navy since they have the longest inland coastline in Africa which needs to be protected.

To sum up the world operations in the Somali ocean seem to be project furthermore the waste is dumped and we always see on the beaches barrels filled with unknown materials and illegal fishing usually occurs the sea so the only way which Somalis can overcome this serious problem is to build the navy and the coastguard who keep the wellbeing of the Somali's territorial water.

By Hassan Abdullahi Mao

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