Under the Bush administration, the US policies on Somalia were contradictive that oscillated between superficial support and deplorable interventions.

The physical disconnection of millions of Somali emigrants from homes, families and friends in search of better lives abroad is partly bridged by a financial connection.

They say the pirates are reacting to an influx of Asian and European ships that are taking advantage of Somalia's lawlessness to plunder its fish stocks and despoiled its waters with toxic waste.

A long time ago, most of the current Somali territories in the horn of Africa belonged to the larger Cushitic nationality of Oromo known by the Somalis as Galla and others.

Unfortunately, Western women are constantly and maliciously entertained with lies - through series of well-calculated documentaries and films that are usually aimed at painting Muslim women as being abused by their husbands ; simply to make their women feel good about themselves.

I was forced to hijack foreign ships after the central government collapsed. No one was monitoring the sea, and we couldn't fish properly, because the ships which trawl the Somali coasts illegally would destroy our small boats and equipment. That is what forced us to become pirates.

Political divisions between civic nationalist and sectarian entrepreneurs re-emerged in the north and the south during the dying days of colonialism, but the nationalists remained dominant

Since the outbreak of Somalia's civil war in 1991, each new cycle of turmoil has generated a fresh flow of refugees to neighbouring countries.