With winter imminent and much essential infrastructure destroyed, a second wave of deaths could double the current count of at least 54,000. . That gang is one of three well-organized pirate groups on the 1,880-mile coast of Somalia, which has had no effective government since opposition leaders ousted a dictatorship in 1991 and then turned on each other, leaving the nation of 7 million a patchwork of warlord fiefdoms.