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The pirates of Puntland

IF YOU have a taste for high-risk exploration, where frontier means wild frontier, then the very prospective and very dangerous Somali region of Puntland – the world capital of piracy – may be the place for you. It certainly is for Perth-headquartered petroleum explorer, Range Resources.

Steve Rotherham

Piracy has become the region's leading industry, earning an estimated $US35 million this year in ransom payments. Puntland's pirates have long preyed on ships travelling through the Gulf of Aden to or...

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