索馬里海盜

Piracy off the Somali coast has been a threat to international shipping since the beginning of Somalia's civil war in the early 1990s. Since 2005, many international organizations, including the International Maritime Organization and the World Food Programme, have expressed concern over the rise in acts of piracy. Piracy has contributed to a rise in shipping costs and impeded the delivery of food aid shipments. Ninety percent of the World Food Programme's shipments arrive by sea, and ships have required a military escort. According to the Kenyan foreign minister, Somali pirates have received over $150 million (US dollars) in ransom money during the 12 months prior to November 2008.

On October 7, 2008, the United Nations Security Council adopted resolution 1838 calling on nations with vessels in the area to apply military force to repress the acts of piracy. At the 101st council of the International Maritime Organization, India called for a United Nations peacekeeping force under unified command to tackle piracy off Somalia.

非洲東部國家索馬里沿海海盜日益猖獗，已嚴重影響到國際航運。該國海盜興起於上世紀90年代初的索馬里內戰。自2005年以來，許多國際組織，其中包括國際海事組織和世界糧食計畫署對此地猖獗的海盜行為表示關注。海盜的行為使航運運輸成本增加，阻礙了非洲糧食援助的正常運送。世界糧食計畫署百分之九十的運送糧食的海上船隻要求軍隊護送。據肯亞外交部長透露，2008年11月之前的12月里，索馬里海盜已經索取了超過1.5億美元的贖金。

2008年10月7日，聯合國安理會通過1838號決議，呼籲各國船隻在該地區對海盜行為實行 * 。在國際海事組織的第101次理事會上，印度呼籲聯合國授權在維持和平部隊的統一指揮下解決索馬里海盜。