Bronwyn Bruton, deputy director of the Michael S. Ansari Africa Center, was featured on WAMU Radio's Kojo Nnamdi Show on a segment entitled "Piracy in Somalia."

Martin Murphy, resident senior fellow in the Michael S. Ansari Africa Center, is the author of an article on “Somali Piracy: Why Should We Care?” in the current issue of the RUSI Journal. In his essay, Murphy contends that Somali piracy is the single biggest maritime threat since World War II, with consequences resonating far beyond the shores of Somalia that have political, geostrategic, naval, economic and human security aspects.

The International Security Program and the Michael S. Ansari Africa Center launched the Atlantic Council Maritime Piracy Task Force, chaired by Atlantic Council Board Director Franklin D. Miller. This was the first in what will be a series of meetings addressing the challenge of piracy and possible strategic approaches.

J. Peter Pham, director of the Michael S. Ansari Africa Center, was invited to review The Pirates of Somalia: Inside Their Hidden World, by Canadian journalist Jay Bahadur, for the San Francisco Chronicle. The review was the lead feature in the book section of the Sunday edition of the newspaper.

Dr. J. Peter Pham, director of the Michael S. Ansari Africa Center, authored a chapter on "Putting Somali Piracy in Context" for a volume on Somalia: State Collapse, Terrorism, and Piracy, edited by Brian J. Hesse and recently released by the Routledge imprint of the British academic publisher Taylor and Francis.

On June 21, 2011, the Michael S. Ansari Africa Center hosted a select group of government and think tank experts for a briefing on piracy off the coast of Somalia by Hans Tino Hansen, Founder and CEO of the Danish firm Risk Intelligence ApS.

Ansari Africa Center Director J. Peter Pham appeared on a segment of Fox News "Special Report with Bret Baier" to comment on the issue of combating piracy off the Horn of Africa. 

Combating the scourge of maritime piracy has emerged as a promising area of cooperation between NATO and the Russian Federation.  During last month’s annual NATO-Russia Council (NRC) meeting, Moscow’s Ambassador to NATO, Dmitry Rogozin, called for “detailed discussions” on how best to coordinate counter-piracy efforts off the Somali coast, and proposed organizing NATO-Russian naval patrols in the Gulf of Aden as well as in other pirate infested waters."