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Sugulle, Mogadishu
n Somalia’s main pirate lair of Haradheere, the sea gangs have set up a cooperative to fund their hijackings offshore, a sort of stock exchange meets criminal...
made popular Dec 2 2009
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Yusuf, Mogadishu
Somali pirates have captured a tanker carrying oil to the US, officials say. The Greek-owned Maran Centaurus was about 1,300km (800 miles) off Somalia when it was...
made popular Nov 30 2009
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Sugulle, Mogadishu
Somali pirates on Wednesday seized a cargo ship in the Indian Ocean with 22 crew members on board, the European Union Naval Force said. Naval spokesman Cmdr. John...
made popular Nov 11 2009
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Boba Bobik, Kiev
Since first info appeared on 28 July locally in Sweden, a story of a hijacked “Arctic Sea”, Malta-registered, Russian-crew-completed, Finish-timber carrying ship...
made popular Aug 14 2009
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Richard, London
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
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Nsubuga, Kampala
“In our culture we were nomads and we believed it was our right to take sheep, to take cattle. That is how we see the ships. They are our sheep and we will take...
made popular Jun 17 2009
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Kunal, Nairobi
Muslim leaders and police in Kenya warned yesterday that the country was becoming a “dumping ground” for Somali pirates after the United States handed over 17...
made popular Jun 12 2009
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Isaac, Kampala
A warning this week from the British aid group Oxfam that the humanitarian crisis in Somalia is the worst in Africa is not new. Last year, the U.N. called the situation...
made popular Jun 5 2009
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John, New York
US navy snipers have shot dead three pirates holding a US captain in a boat off Somalia, in a dramatic rescue authorised by President Barack Obama. They opened fire...
made popular Apr 13 2009
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Rudolf, New York
Pirates are glorified criminals. The life of a pirate is packed with danger. But the myth about pirates only celebrates the loots. There is nothing romantic about...
made popular Apr 13 2009
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Boba Bobik, Kiev
At last, epopee with Faina, a ship hired to bring Russian ammunition in Kenya from Odessa Port of the Ukraine, captured by Somali pirates in open sea, was finished as a...
made popular Feb 15 2009
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Kabukabu, london
Things are turning ugly as the Somali pirates fortify themselves against foreign naval ships that are moving in to patrol Africa’s longest coastline. Militia men...
made popular Nov 25 2008
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veena, delhi
Indian Navy has shown the world once again after Operation Pawan in Sri Lanka and Operation Cactus in Maldives that it is one of the best in the world. Only a few days...
made popular Nov 12 2008
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Abdirahim, Mogadishu
Somali pirates are demanding an $8m ransom for the release of a Ukrainian ship they are holding off the coast off their country’s northern coast.The pirates appear to...
made popular Oct 10 2008
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Grace Calderon, Quezon City
Pirates took hostage at least 17 fishermen aboard four fishing boats off Tawi-Tawi province in Mindanao, southern Philippines. The report said the pirates, armed with...
made popular Oct 3 2008
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Grace Calderon, Quezon City
Pirates have released 14 Filipinos from among the 79 crewmen of two Malaysian tankers hijacked near Somalia in exchange for a ransom. The release came two days after...
made popular Oct 2 2008
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Cindy, Pretoria
Is shipping in the great horn of Africa increasingly falling at the mercy of the pirates? This seems to be the case with last Thursday’s hijack of Mv Faina, a...
made popular Oct 1 2008
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Grace Calderon, Quezon City
The Philippine government will formally declare the pirate-prone Gulf of Aden as risk zone after several hijacking incidents victimized almost 100 seafarers from the...
made popular Sep 30 2008
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Danielle, Orlando
Somali pirates plying the Gulf of Aden in speedboats equipped with grenade launchers and scaling ladders have launched what the maritime industry calls the biggest...
made popular Sep 27 2008
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