Posts Tagged ‘Pirates’

Pirates and poverty in Somalia

April 24th, 2009 | by Coco McCabe

We’re not saints here at Oxfam. With all the bad news about piracy off the coast of Somalia, we’ve been cracking plenty of jokes–most of them corny–about doubloons, parrots, and eye patches. Maybe it’s just a way of managing the horror behind the headlines. They highlight the pirates’ daring, their urge for revenge, their growing sophistication. But behind all that is another story–one that is far more unsettling.

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