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Experts: Nigerian pirates may be extending reach
Benin :: Nigeria | 15 days ago
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Pirates attacked an oil tanker Tuesday, killing a Ukrainian sailor and wounding at least two crew members on the Liberian-flagged Cancale Star, said Benin's naval chief, Maxime Ahoyo. He said the tanker had 24 crew members, mostly Ukrainian and that some...
Tags: Nigerian, Cyrus Mody, Benin, Somalia, West Africa, pirates attack, equally dangerous, somalis pirates, Nigeria
Somali pirates seize weapons ship, attack tanker
Mogadishu :: Somalia | about 1 month ago
Credibility Somali pirates have seized a United Arab Emirates-flagged cargo ship loaded with weapons bound for the anarchic Horn of Africa nation in contravention of a U.N. arms embargo, maritime experts said Monday. Also Monday, the gunmen launched their longest...
Tags: somalis pirates, Somalia, Somalis, Mogadishu, United Arab Emirates, Abdirisaq Abdulkadir, flagged ship, China News Service, bw lion, oil tanker
Pirates kick, spit on hostages
Mogadishu :: Somalia | about 1 month ago
Credibility Somali pirates holding a Spanish trawler crew captive have kicked and spat on their hostages, the trawler captain said on Monday. Ricardo Blach, the skipper of the Alakrana tuna boat, seized with its 36-strong crew on October 2, also told the Spanish...
Tags: Spanish, Somalia, Alakrana, Spain Papers Review, somalis pirates
Fishermens' families demand the release of captured Somali pirates
Bermeo :: Spain | about 1 month ago
Credibility The Government has said that the crew of the 'Alakrana' are well The families of the crew members of the Spanish tuna fishing boat, ‘Alakrana’, taken hostage by Somali pirates over a month ago are demanding the release of the two captured men who have...
Tags: Alakrana, Somalis, somalis pirates, Spanish, Somali Pirates Threaten, Spain, crew members
Pirates move Spanish ship hostages to land
Bermeo :: Spain | about 1 month ago
Credibility Somali pirates holding a Spanish trawler took three crew members ashore Thursday to press Spain to release fellow pirates, the crew's family members said. The pirates threatened to hand the crew members to the families of two suspected gunmen held in...
Tags: Spanish, crew member, Somalia, Somalis, Spain, Somali Waters, somalis pirates, Alakrana, fishing vessel, pirates holding
Somali pirates ask $4m for Spanish boat
Mogadishu :: Somalia | about 1 month ago
Credibility A 30-year-old pirate, Abdi Yare, told AFP on the phone from coastal Harardhere Village that the Spanish fishing boat, Alakrana, could be swapped with two colleagues of Somali pirates held in Spanish custody. "We also demand four million US dollars (2.8...
Tags: Spanish, somalis pirates, Somalia, million dollars
Somali Pirates arrive in Madrid
Madrid :: Spain | about 1 month ago
Credibility The two are expected to appear before Judge Baltasar Garzón on Tuesday morning The two Somali pirates who were captured from the group which have seized the Spanish trawler, ‘Alakrana’ have arrived in Madrid, brought into the airbase at Torrejón.
Tags: Spanish, Madrid, Somalis, Somali Pirates, Somalia, somalis pirates, Alakrana, Spain
Somali Islamist threaten Kenya 'invasion'
Mogadishu :: Somalia | 6 months ago
Credibility A senior member of Somalia's Islamist insurgent movement al Shabaab threatened on Thursday to "invade" Kenya if it did not thin its military presence on the two east African neighbours' border. The rebels, who control parts of south Somalia close to...
Tags: Somalia, Somalis, Kenya, somalis pirates, Moammar Gaddafi
10 killed in Somalia fighting, dozens wounded
Mogadishu :: Somalia | 7 months ago
Credibility Witnesses and hospital officials in Somalia say rival Islamist groups have clashed in the capital, killing at least 10 people and wounding dozens. The fighting Sunday is the latest in days of fighting in Mogadishu. Resident Abdinasir Ali says he saw...
Tags: Somalia, somalis pirates, Somalis, somalia fighting, Mogadishu
Prosecutors say pirate was brazen ringleader
Mombasa :: Kenya | 7 months ago
Credibility Prosecutors say Abdiwali Abdiqadir Muse was not shy about making his presence known on the Maersk Alabama , brazenly tearing through the ship in a way that belied his young age and skinny, 5-foot-2 frame. He was the first to board the ship, he fired a...
Tags: Kenyan, Mombasa, somalis pirates, Somalis, French, suspected pirates, Obama
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