News

'Roads better than warships' in tackling piracy

Thursday, 17 July 2014

A study by two UK universities concludes that the local elites and communities protect pirates in Somalia because they lack an income, reports BBC News. The study, by the University of Oxford and King's College London, is published in the British Journal of Criminology. 

The study has also been reported in The Economist with the headline 'Pirates v economists'.