9 Somali pirates have been sentenced in Kenyan court on Tuesday to 5 years in
prison each for their attempts to hijack the German merchant ship MV Courier in the
Gulf of Aden in March 2009.
Even though the number of pirate attacks has decreased markedly since 2011 thanks
to tougher security aboard vessels and increased Western naval patrols, piracy
emanating from the Horn of Africa nation might still cost the world economy around 18
billion U.S. dollars a year, according to a study be the World Bank.
