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"Mr President, in 2012, the Food and Agricultural Organization estimated that more than eight million people were in critical need of aid in the Horn of Africa. Chronic and pervasive food and sanitation challenges in the region were only exacerbated by the drought, which was the worst in six years. Over 13 million people were affected, forcing hundreds of thousands to flee their homes and killing the tens of thousands who starved to death. The European Union started the SHARE Programme and we have now provided about EUR 270 million, which will help people in that area to grow better food, to build emergency interventions and strengthen the livelihoods of agro-pastoral communities and help them to grow food, because we have been giving them aid for a long time but not helping them to grow more food. We have changed our policy and we are now going to help them to grow more food.
But piracy, for example in Somalia, has become an acute problem. There are now some 700 pirates arrested and not tried for this gross violation of international law. GBP 170 million has been paid in ransoms in England alone to pirates. It has become an industry. The ransoms are paid; people get commissions; the pirates get the money. We have to go after the people who are arranging and managing the piracy. Catching little chaps off the boats is one thing, but to get at the people who are behind it all is a key strategy that we should put into place, to try them in our international courts."@en1
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