Lack of a “large ransom” delayed the release of 26 hostages held by Somali pirates for nearly five years, according to a representative from the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).

The hostages were crew members of the FV Naham 3, an Omani-flagged fishing vessel which had been hijacked by the Somali pirates, off the coast of the Seychelles in 2012.

They were released on October 22^nd.

Priyanka Shankar has been speaking to Alan Cole, the head of UNODC’s Global Maritime Crime Programme, about their release.

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