Should Africa rethink its strategy on Somali pirates?

It is saddening that piracy has become a booming business on the Indian Ocean coast. I am a Kenyan who has been following media reports on piracy along our coastline. The losses that we undergo as a nation are high, keeping in mind that the Government has an obligation to keep Kenya's borders secure. In my thinking, the international community should influence events in Somalia by withdrawing completely from the country. The Somalis should be left to fight a full-fledged civil war and the victor in the duel to get necessary support from the international community. This idea of trying to force a regime down the throat of a determined people is disastrous.

After a formidable government is established in Somalia by Somalis themselves, then Somalia will play an active role in keeping away the pirates. Actually some of these pirates are Somalis out looking for money to fuel the war in their country for the ongoing fratricidal bloodletting.

No, there's nothing African countries can do about Somalia. Many of them are, after all, only marginally better in many respects. And neither should they, even if they could. For Somalia is just one direct consequence of the cynical pursuit of self-interest by both the West and the old USSR alike. Who can pretend not to remember the endless flows of aid (including one form of military support or another) to the notorious tyrant and mass murderer, Siad Barre, whose reign of terror sowed the seeds for the current murderous anarchy in that country? If Somalia has returned to bite these powers in the form of piracy, that is probably regrettable, but as far as I'm concerned, it's par for the course.

Kenya is affected by the Somali pirates.Shipping companies charging extra for piracy insurance on imports and exports other shipping lines Ignore this issue all together. The international Pirates courts in Kenya also puts the country at risk from Alshabaab and other beneficiaries of Piracy. Real time mapping of these seas by enabling military satellites to have a cctv control center can solve it. All they may need is a few command centers and a few patrol boats to respond to calls other wise we are wasting time.

Piracy is illegal and should not be allowed on the Indian Ocean.
I dont think it is the responsibility of African governments to
police the Indian Ocean for vessels to pass. It is the responsibility of the vessel owners to protect their vessels. All they need do is
create their own armed security force to deal with these lawless people.
The Somalis have made fortunes out of this business and they will
keep doing it as long as they get away with their crimes.

Piracy is not really the problem of the African Union or certan powers. It's the EU's problem

I lost a Neighbour to the hands of these hudlooms last 2 years.In my opinion,this piracy thing should not boreder the world much or cause the world a single headache.Let there be steady patrol and control by the Ocean Coast-Guards in those areas these theives operate,the American and it's allies has the ability to stop this idots if only they can shift steady focus, concerns and attention to the areas being affected,I think with this,piracy will be terminated forever.

just stay the 400 miles that is the international border,these ships are trespassing in to a war thorne country, and with that comes dangers.Somalia does not have a navy,and the only region that can do something is somaliland if they just get the get go and the surport that country needs.

Somalia alone will never be able to handle the pirates, they need international support.