Politics & Government
Farah Ismail Eid, 38, is serving a 15-year prison term in Mandhera, in the autonomous Somaliland region of northern Somalia. Along with four other men, Eid was convicted in September of plotting to hijack ships off the coast of Somalia. (Shashank Bengali/MCT)
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At the entrance to a prison in Mandhera, Somalia, a signboard indicates that 590 prisoners were housed there on April 21, 2009. Five of those prisoners are serving 15-year terms for piracy. (Shashank Bengali/MCT)
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A Somaliland coast guard boat on patrol in the Gulf of Aden in April 2009. Somaliland, an autonomous region of northern Somalia, has just two working patrol boats but is one of the few regional governments trying to thwart pirate attacks off of East Africa. (Shashank Bengali/MCT)
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An officer with the coast guard of Somaliland, an autonomous region of northern Somalia, looks out over the Gulf of Aden while on an anti-piracy patrol in April 2009. Somaliland is one of the few regional governments able to fight the rising number of pirate attacks in the waters off of Somalia. (Shashank Bengali/MCT)
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Members of the Somaliland coast guard conduct an anti-piracy patrol in the Gulf of Aden in April 2009. (Shashank Bengali/MCT)
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