Here's part of the article, which I quite liked.
The Darod may have made the business more democratic, according to Daren Dickson, a senior manager at Drum Cussac, a risk consultancy. They insist on cash delivery, whereas ransoms were previously paid through banks or the informal Hawala money transfer system and controlled by warlords.
“The actual clan members now get the cut, rather than just the warlord taking it,” Mr Dickson says.
The pirates now employ “accountants” to divide up ransoms.
There are carefully worked out formulae determining how much is paid to everyone, from the lowliest guards to gang leaders. The pirates follow a code of conduct which proscribes, for example, the harming of crewmen, with fines for miscreants.
Personal ties and talent together decide how careers progress, according to Mark Genung, captain of the USS Vella Gulf. “If you’re a good pirate, I suppose you get good pirate jobs,” he says. “If you’re a bad pirate, I guess you get bad pirate jobs.”
Rumours are there might be an attack on the land bases of the pirates in March. Honestly, I rather doubt this to be true, but, you never know.
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