CAIRO, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Egypt's ambassador to the United Nations called on the international community to address the root causes of the piracy threat in Somalia's coastal waters.
Maged Abdel Fattah, Egypt's permanent representative to the United Nations, said in a recent speech in front of the U.N. Security Council in New York that in order to effectively combat the growing threat of piracy in the Gulf of Aden, more needs to be done to address the root causes of widespread problems in the Horn of Africa region, the Egyptian government reported.
Somalia has been without a functioning national government since 1991, and ongoing violence in the country has displaced hundreds of thousands of civilians. Fattah called on the international community to deal with the overall situation in Somalia in order to better address the reason people are increasingly resorting to organized crime and piracy in the Horn of Africa.
Fattah said there needs to be "coordinated efforts of these countries (in the Horn of Africa) in order to secure the international navigation and prevent acts of piracy," the release said.
