There's another side to all this.

Today's BBC news had an item about how local Kenyan fishermen are benefitting because the activities of the Somali pirates have led to a departure from Kenyan waters of another variety of pirate - the illegal foreign fishing boats which had moved in to the area in recent years, as reported in this story last year - Pirate fishing boats target Africa:

According to today's story things have got a lot better since then, and the Somali pirates are in high regard among Kenyan fishermen, and no doubt by Somali fishemen as well. In fact it appears that many of these pirates used to be fishermen, who turned to piracy when the foreign "pirate fishing boats" wrecked their livelihood.