A trying task: Kenya agrees to hear various piracy cases

Courts are opened in deal with the U.S. and European Union

By Katharine Houreld / The Bulletin
April 24, 2009

MOMBASA, Kenya — The 11 Somali men, accused in a pirate attack on a Liberian freighter, filed slowly into court. The magistrate took one look at their dingy shirts, jackets and sarongs — two were barefoot — and ordered a court official to make sure they were....

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