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Now pirates set up ‘stock exchange’

In Somalia’s main pirate lair of Haradheere, sea gangs have set up a co-operative to fund their hijackings offshore a sort of stock exchange meets criminal syndicate.

Heavily armed pirates from the lawless Horn of Africa nation have terrorised shipping lanes in the Indian ocean and strategic gulf of Aden.

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