BBC
November 21, 2008
There are fears if the ransom is paid other super-tankers will be targeted
Somali pirates have been paid more than $150m (£101m) in ransoms in the past 12 months, Kenya’s foreign minister says.
“That is why they are becoming more and more audacious in their activities,” Moses Wetangula said, urging the world to take [...]
Category Archives: Regional
Pirates ‘earned $150m this year’
November 22, 2008 – 10:28 am
Eritrea blames US for Somali piracy
November 22, 2008 – 10:25 am
afrol News, Norway
21 November 2008
The Eritrean Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a statement has blamed Washington’s alleged policy of “balkanising Somalia” for being the root cause behind piracy off the Somali coast, adding that breakaway Somaliland and Puntland must return to Somalia to create a forceful unit.
Eritrean government statement
According to the official Eritrean statement, [...]
Shifting Somalia peace talks won’t help: Experts
November 21, 2008 – 6:59 am
Peninsula On-line/AFP, Qatar
November 21, 2008
NAIROBI: A proposal by Somalia’s president to move reconciliation talks with the Islamist opposition from Djibouti to Libya threatens to cripple peace efforts and undermine the government, observers said yesterday.
President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed suggested on Tuesday that the UN-sponsored talks, which started in May, be moved to Tripoli, highlighting [...]
Somalia’s Pirates Inc.
November 21, 2008 – 6:56 am
Expressbuzz/Washington Post, India/US
Abukar Albadri
21 Nov 2008
Straddling a wooden crate filled with $1 million in cash ransom, a cranky old pirate bellows names from a notebook as his anxious, bleary-eyed minions lean against the stone walls of their cramped hideout in Somalia.
The grizzled buccaneer, chain-smoking Marlboros as he taps into his calculator, checks the notebook [...]
The lawless Horn
November 20, 2008 – 2:56 pm
The Economist
Anarchy in Somalia
Nov 20th 2008
Pirates are only part of a much bigger problem in east Africa
IT IS tempting to be jaunty about piracy. So what if a few Robin Hoods in skiffs nick the odd tanker off the Horn of Africa? Often enough, the owners pay ransom and nobody gets hurt. Everyone needs a [...]
Somalia ‘to become pirate magnet’
November 20, 2008 – 2:54 pm
BBC
November 20, 2008
Somalia must be helped by the international community to stop it becoming a “magnet for pirates,” a senior Egyptian official has said.
Deputy foreign minister Wafaa Bassem, who chaired a piracy crisis meeting of Red Sea states, called for political, humanitarian and economic help.
And a top African Union diplomat called on the [...]
Islamists poised to seize Somalia again in setback to U.S.
November 20, 2008 – 2:51 pm
McClatchy Newspapers, US
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Shashank Bengali
NAIROBI, Kenya — Al Shabaab, a radical Islamist group that U.S. officials say is tied to al Qaida, has methodically seized much of southern Somalia and is poised to take the capital, Mogadishu, as the country’s internationally backed government nears collapse.
The rise of al Shabaab — from [...]
Crisis meeting over Somali piracy
November 20, 2008 – 2:47 pm
BBC
November 20 2008
A spate of pirate attacks off the coast of Somalia has prompted an emergency meeting between nations bordering the Red Sea to deal with the problem.
Senior officials from Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Yemen are meeting in the Egyptian capital, Cairo.
It comes amid claims that pirates who hijacked a Saudi [...]
Live Piracy Map 2008
November 20, 2008 – 2:41 pm
Icc Commercial Crime Services
November 20 2008
Live Piracy Map 2008
This map shows all the piracy and armed robbery incidents reported to the IMB Piracy Reporting Centre during 2008. If exact coordinates are not provided, estimated positions are shown based on information provided. Zoom-in and click on the pointers to view more information of an individual attack. [...]
River Nile treaty talks hit deadlock Sunday
November 14, 2008 – 7:08 am
New Vision, Uganda
9th November, 2008
Uganda stops sharing water data with Egypt
Gerald Tenywa and Reuben Olita
Negotiations on a new River Nile agreement have stalled following a disagreement among member states.
While Sudan and Egypt want the new treaty to give them the right to consent to the use of the Nile waters, the other [...]
