Home
RSS
A Chinese ship with 146 people aboard was hijacked Monday in the Indian Ocean, the European Union Naval Force said.
The bulk carrier De Xin Hai was hijacked around noon about 550 nautical miles northeast of the Seychelles and 700 nautical miles off...
Related Stories
Most Recent
Most Popular
Most Commented
10
Star It 
(0)
At least 8 people were killed and more than 17 others injured in Heavy fighting between Somali government forces and insurgents in south and northern Somali capital...
made popular 9 hr. ago
SOMALI pirates have threatened to kill three crew members taken hostage from a Spanish fishing vessel if two suspected pirates being held in Spain are not freed, the...
made popular Nov 7 2009
Militants who control parts of Somalia’s capital city are beating women in broad daylight for violating their radical brand of Islamic law, according to local...
made popular Oct 30 2009
Hundreds of people have attended a wedding in central Somalia between a man who says he is 112 years old, and his teenage wife.
made popular Oct 29 2009
PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has warned Islamist rebels who threatened to attack Kampala that they will pay a heavy price if they did so.
“Those groups, I would advise...
made popular Oct 24 2009
The poor Somali people- not only are they living in chaos and subjected to violence, the once moderate Muslims are now being subjected to the indignities and religious...
made popular Oct 22 2009
Somalia’s hardline Muslim extremists have ordered women to shake their breasts to determine if they are wearing “un-Islamic” bras.
The orders have been...
made popular Oct 21 2009
The winners of a quiz organised by Somali Islamists have been given weapons and ammunition as prizes.
Prizes included AK-47 assault rifles, hand grenades and an...
made popular Oct 20 2009
Where in the Q’ran does it proclaim it is haram (forbidden) for women to wear pants? Or brassieres? Or burqas? In fact, where in the Q’ran does it forbid...
made popular Oct 19 2009
Even though the government has denied the information as media rumours, this is the second time that Kenya has been mentioned in issues regarding the militia and the...
made popular Oct 19 2009
Somalia’s Shebab Islamist group has growing links with Al-Qaeda and poses a potential threat to foreign interests by radicalising Western youths, a leading expert...
made popular Oct 13 2009
Six masked men used machetes to carry out amputations on three men accused of robbery by a Somali Islamist court, a witness said Saturday.
Abdulahi Hassan Afrah said...
made popular Oct 10 2009
Somalia’s semi-autonomous region of Puntland has protested to Ethiopia, accusing its forces of carrying out a cross-border undercover operation.
Puntland’s...
made popular Oct 10 2009
Three foreign workers with the French aid group Action Against Hunger (ACF) were freed Saturday after being held in Somalia since July, a humanitarian agency source...
made popular Oct 3 2009
One in five Somali children is wasting away from malnutrition. Tens of thousands need urgent medical care to survive. The whole middle belt of the country is teetering...
made popular Oct 2 2009
Fighting between rival Islamist factions over control of a key Somali port city killed at least five people on Thursday, residents and medical staff said, in the first...
made popular Oct 1 2009
Somali schools should stop using “un-Islamic” textbooks distributed by the United Nations, a spokesman for the Islamist group al-Shabab has said.
Sheikh...
made popular Sep 22 2009
I have just been curious of the whole mess that has permanently become part of Somalia but my quest seems to be in futility since there is so limited rather...
made popular Sep 18 2009
Two huge explosions have gone off at an African Union peacekeepers’ base in the Somali capital, witnesses say.
The Islamist al-Shabab group has said it carried...
made popular Sep 17 2009
Somalia – One of Africa’s most wanted al-Qaida suspects has been killed in a U.S. raid in southern Somalia, the deputy mayor for security affairs in...
made popular Sep 15 2009
All Stories
Most Recent
Most Popular
Most Commented
Switzerland will not join the European Union’s anti-piracy efforts, lawmakers decided Thursday amid concern that participating in the mission off Somalia could...
made popular Sep 24 2009
Eight people have been arrested for hijacking the cargo ship Arctic Sea, Russia’s defence minister says.
Anatoly Serdyukov said the group of suspects included...
made popular Aug 18 2009
The crew of two Egyptian fishing vessels wielding machetes and tools attacked Somali pirates who had held them hostage for four months, killing at least two of them,...
made popular Aug 14 2009
European Commission maritime officials told The Daily Telegraph that following its first attack in Swedish waters, a second set of radio messages was received from the...
made popular Aug 13 2009
MICROSOFT in conjunction with the Uganda Performing Rights Society (UPRS) have nabbed Asians in Kampala with pirated computer software.
The Asians were caught during...
made popular May 27 2009
Every year, the United States governments publishes its Special 301 Report on international piracy. The list identifies the worst abusers of intellectual property and...
made popular May 6 2009
The great and courageous Microsoft has decided to play an active role in the Arab world. More than that it is adopting the language of pan-Arabism.
The software...
made popular May 4 2009
Why the countries in the world hesitate to take strong action against Somalian Govt. and the Somani pirates when every country in the world facing great threat from...
made popular Apr 13 2009
Somalian pirates: Sea terrorist.
“US military chiefs are bolstering their forces around the Horn of Africa to help tackle Somali pirates holding a US captain...
made popular Apr 11 2009
The previous capture of a Saudi tanker carrying $100 million of crude raised awareness of the pirates operating off Somalia’s coast. The tanker was only released...
made popular Apr 9 2009
Piracy is inevitable and we have been listening a lot about the ongoing Piracy of almost everything weather it is a movie, software, game or any other thing. The...
made popular Mar 18 2009
Picture released by the German Bundeswehr on March 4, 2009 shows Bundeswehr soldiers approaching pirates in the Gulf of Aden off Somalia on March 3, 2009, after frigate...
made popular Mar 5 2009
The United States is seeking international authorization allowing foreign navies to pursue Somali pirates on land as well as at sea in an effort to curb the growing...
made popular Dec 12 2008
A dictionary defines terrorism as follows: “the use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, esp. for political purposes.”
Terrorist are people who...
made popular Dec 6 2008
It was really surprising this current wave of piracy near the coasts of Somalia. This is almost the last thing anybody can imagine or expect in the twenty-first...
made popular Dec 3 2008
Though the music industry in Kenya has recently been viewed as potential driver of economic activity, piracy has continued to wreck havoc on the sector.
Piracy has...
made popular Nov 3 2008
The hijacking incident of a bulk carrier with 21 Filipino seafarers onboard came at a time when the country welcomed back 15 seamen released by Somali pirates.
made popular Oct 18 2008
Piracy in the Gulf of Aden has cost shippers between $18-30 million so far this year in ransoms and is threatening global business. Pirates have hijacked more than 30...
made popular Oct 3 2008
Related Tags
Aden AF Africa Asia Business Europe Gulf Kenya Kuala Lumpur Malaysia Nairobi North America Pictorial Politics & Society Somali Somalia Technology U.S. United States World
Images
Manama:
An unidentified U.S. Navy sailor seen between flags of the United States and Turkey during a ceremony, Sunday May 3, 2009, at the U.S. Navy base in Manama, Bahrain, putting Turkey in command of an international naval task force fighting piracy.
