Somali pirates resurge amid Red Sea and Gulf crises

Crews of multiple merchant vessels have been seized and held by pirates, creating direct risk to maritime workers and their families.

Off the Horn of Africa, an old threat has returned to fill the silence left by distraction. In a single week, Somali pirates seized four merchant vessels in the Indian Ocean, exploiting the security vacuum created as international naval forces concentrate on crises in the Red Sea and Persian Gulf. The networks that once terrorized global shipping were never dismantled — only quieted — and they have now found, in the world's divided attention, the space to resurface. The crews held aboard those ships remind us that geopolitical abstraction always resolves, eventually, into human captivity.

Somali pirates resurge amid Red Sea and Gulf crises

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