An ocean may in time develop from a rift in the Afar Triangle, in the Horn of Africa which will be close to America.

Earth's new ocean is being formed by tectonic activity. On the Somali peninsula, three tectonic plates meet in a region known as the Afar Triangle. The Nubian plate, comprising most of the African ...

In December 2023, a month after the Iran-backed Houthi rebels started striking merchant ships, Somali pirates hijacked MV Ruen, a Maltese-flagged cargo ship from the Indian Ocean. That was the ...

Many experts believe that Somali pirates no longer pose a threat ... Raj Mohabeer of the Indian Ocean Commission, an intergovernmental organization that links the island nations of the ...

It was in 2017 when Somali pirates hijacked the Comoros-flagged Aris 13 - their last major attack before a periodof relative calm. Years later, the threat has returned with full force.