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Somali pirates are extending their activities further out from the Somali coast, beyond the Seychelles in the east and to the Red Sea in the north, warns an international naval task force.
The force has urged mariners to take advantage of the monsoon season about to begin, which will hinder pirates' activities until September.
In a special advisory issued to shipping Wednesday, the Combined Maritime Forces (CMF) of a number of Western powers noted that most attacks on ships in the past two years have taken place during daylight hours in the Gulf of Aden.
"However, recently pirates have attacked vessels at night and have conducted attacks far off the eastern coast of Somalia," the CMF said. Using "mother ships" as staging platforms, they are able to operate much further from the Somali coast than before.
The force also said a confirmed pirate attack in the southern Red Sea created "a new area of potential risk."
"Merchants [ships] are urged to use the weather to their advantage, planning new routing off the east coast of Somalia due to the start of the southwest monsoon season...
"Pirates have also recently increased their number of attacks during the hours of darkness, highlighting the need for heightened vigilance of merchant mariners during both day and night time transits through the high risk areas."
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I would like to recommend two things to the countries that their troops and war vessels are engaging the battle aganist the pirates in Somalia.
First recommend is only to fight in ordet the reduce their risk to the global stability is to cooperate with the adminstrations existing the areas which pirates attack the international vessels, according to the statement from Puntland President Mr. Abdirahman Mohamud, he said that his government is ready to fight and illeminate the pirates in Somali coasts but we need support in international communities mainly facilities such as high spead boats, communication devices, and military trainings.
And my second recommendation is, i would like to suggest the developed countries to support the puntland governemnt in both financial and political to destroy the pirate bases on the seas because pirates are not in the town they have bases on the seas. therefore you will see the impact of this after the developmed countries support the Puntland autonmous, which is part of Somalia but has its own adminstration, police and budget. i hope after that the number of pirate activities will decrease.