Paris, 17 April-(ANA)-Eleven Somali pirates captured this week by a French warship are being taken to Kenya for trial, the French defence ministry has said.
The pirates will be tried under an agreement between the EU and Kenya, French officials said.
They were captured by a warship from an EU force deployed to tackle a recent surge in piracy.
Meanwhile, Somalia's prime minister has warned that pirates could only be defeated on land.
They would always find ways of evading patrolling warships, he told the BBC's Focus on Africa programme. (ANA)
