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SOMALIA- Militants warn contractors to stop helping UN aid programme
Mogadishu :: Somalia | 1 day ago
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Somalia have warned local contractors to stop helping the United Nation�s World Food Programme (WFP) distribute aid by January 1. Al-Shabaab, which has battled transitional President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed�s UN-backed government, said in a statement...
Tags: Somalia, Mogadishu, War Conflict, Piracy in Somalia, Sharif Ahmed, War in Somalia, Al-Shabaab, Islamist groups, Environment, Somali people, Politics, Transport in Somalia, Seychelles, Gulf of Aden, timeline of the War in Somalia, Piracy, Politics of Somalia, Disaster Accident
Seychellois man's Herculean pirate treasure hunt
Victoria :: Seychelles | 1 day ago
Credibility Cruise-Wilkins has spent much of his life, as did his father before him, dynamiting granite boulders, exploring caves and pumping water to find the treasure Olivier Levasseur is thought to have buried somewhere near his house in Bel Ombre, in the north...
Tags: Olivier Levasseur, John Cruise-Wilkins, La Buse, Somali, Seychelles, Victoria, Piracy, Treasure, Pirates
Greek warship stops halts pirates
Brussels :: Belgium | 14 days ago
Credibility Seychelles and destroyed one of its fast boats before releasing its crew, the European Union naval mission said overnight. The Greek frigate Adrias was led to the so-called pirate "mother ship", some 480km northeast of the Seychelles, by a patrol aircraft...
Tags: Seychelles, Somalia, Belgium, Brussels, Horn of Africa, Aden, Piracy, Piracy in Somalia, Great Rift Valley, Gulf of Aden, Arabian Sea
Spanish Crew Return Home After Pirates Hijacked Ship
Madrid :: Spain | 19 days ago
Credibility The Spanish crew members of a tuna trawler who spent 47 days as hostages of Somali pirates before they were freed for a reported $3.3 million ransom returned home to emotional reunions at their home port Saturday. At a crowded press conference in the...
Tags: Spanish Crew Return Home, Spain, Madrid, Josￃﾩ Luis Rodrￃﾭguez Zapatero, Politics, International criminal law, Piracy, Seychelles, Transport in Somalia, Naval trawler, Fishing trawler, Vigo, Fishing vessels, Gulf of Aden, Piracy in Somalia
Alakrana crew meet family as they arrive in the Seychelles
Madrid :: Spain | 21 days ago
Credibility Most of the families were flown to the islands by the Spanish Air Force, and the Captain of the vessel says he will not sail again The families of the Alakrana’s eight Galician crew members have travelled to the Seychelles where they have been reunited...
Tags: Seychelles, Spanish Air Force, Spain, Madrid, Basque Country, Disaster Accident
Environment ministers prepare for UN climate change summit
Copenhagen :: Denmark | 25 days ago
Credibility Hedegaard said the two-day closed door session offered a chance to focus on the "tough issues." As hopes for a legally-binding deal in Copenhagen have faded, the focus has centred on achieving a politically-binding treaty at the Dec 7-18 summit...Swedish...
Tags: climate change, Copenhagen, environment ministers, Denmark, binding treaty, legally binding, binding deal, global warming, Carbon dioxide, Kyoto Protocol, Connie Hedegaard, Politics, Carbon finance, Diplomatic conferences, Environment, Humanitarian aid, Food security, Urban agriculture, world food price crisis, Poverty, Food politics, Food and Agriculture Organization, Peak oil, Business Finance, Post-Kyoto Protocol negotiations on greenhouse gas emissions, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Treaty of Lisbon, V2G, Seychelles, James Michel, Minister for the Environment, Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, European Union, Copenhagen Climate Council, Energy in Denmark
Brother of terror suspect: 'We are not extremists'
Minneapolis :: MN :: USA | 27 days ago
Credibility A Somali man arrested in the Netherlands and accused of financing Islamic terrorists was not an extremist and was so poor he couldn't afford to bring his new wife from Somalia to the U.S., according to two of his brothers who live in Minnesota. Mohamud...
Tags: Somalia, U.S, Seychelles, Mohamud Said Omar, Minneapolis, Puntland, Somali Institute for Peace and Justice in Minneapolis, Divided regions, Somali people, Horn of Africa, War Conflict, Piracy, Politics, Gulf of Aden, Piracy in Somalia, Transport in Somalia, Operation Atalanta, Hobyo
Somali Pirates Seize Cargo Ship
Mogadishu :: Somalia | about 1 month ago
Credibility Somalia Somali pirates said Wednesday that they had seized a container ship after a five-hour chase in fast skiffs across the Indian Ocean, reflecting both an increase in pirate activity after a period of rough weather and signs of increasing boldness...
Tags: Somalia, Indian Ocean, pirate seize, Seychelles, carrying weapons, crew members
Sailors captured by Somali pirates feel good
Lon :: Burkina Faso | about 1 month ago
Credibility That's according to the ship’s deputy captain, who was able to make a phone call to the owners. The vessel carrying 23 Russians, two Ghanaians and two Philippinos was hijacked off the Seychelles on October 29. It is the largest number of Russians to...
Tags: Somalia, Seychelles
Somali pirates take UK couple off yacht
Mogadishu :: Somalia | about 1 month ago
Credibility Paul and Rachel Chandler, both in their 50s, had left the Seychelles on their 38-foot yacht Lynn Rival and were believed to be sailing to Tanzania when they were hijacked on October 23. "After we understood the British navy might attack us, we took the...
Tags: Somalia Paul, Paul Chandler, Seychelles, Rachel Chandler, Tanzania, paul chandlers, British Ministry of Defense, Mr Chandler, Indian Ocean, uk couple
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