Somali piracy is making an unwelcome return, with two ships hijacked in four days and at least six now held, Somali officials say. The latest target: the SIBU 1, an Eritrean-flagged oil tanker believed to be part of Iran’s covert “shadow fleet,” seized on Thursday about 130 miles off of Yemen and forced toward Somali waters by seven armed individuals, per the New York Times. The fate of the vessel’s 20-person crew is unclear. Earlier in the week, pirates grabbed the Cameroon-flagged cargo ship Lutuf, which was carrying weapons from Turkey to Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu.
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