President seeks peace with Somalia pirates amnesty for significant power that govern part of coast

Somali president offers amnesty to pirates

AFP – Somalia’s president has offered an amnesty to young pirates in a bid to end attacks off the Horn of Africa nation’s coast as he seeks to rebuild the war-torn country, he told AFP. “We have been negotiating with the pirates indirectly through the elders,” said President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud. | Democracy, elections and voting at Democracy Chronicles