BBC
November 21, 2008
Ex-Somali Army Colonel Mohamed Nureh Abdulle lives in Harardhere - the town closest to where the hijacked Saudi oil tanker, Sirius Star is moored. He tells the BBC, via phone from his home, that the town’s residents are more concerned about the apparent dumping of toxic waste than piracy.
The Harardhere-born military man [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
IOL, South Africa
November 3, 2008
Nairobi - Sixty corpses of would-be refugees from Somalia and Ethiopia were found on a beach in Yemen at the weekend after smugglers forced many of them overboard, an international aid agency said on Monday.
Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said the latest victims on the notoriously perilous smuggling route had came across [...]
Kyiv Post, Ukraine
October 22, 2008
24.ua
Faina and the pirates
The situation on the Faina, a ship seized by Somali pirates, is critical, as reserves of water, food and fuel, including diesel fuel for the ship’s generators, will last less than 30 hours, Channel 5 reported on Oct.22, with reference to Verkhovna Rada Human Rights Commissioner Nina [...]
SundayTimes, London
October 19, 2008
Patrick Richardson heads to Ethiopia in search of the Ark of the Covenant
Patrick Richardson
About 500 miles north of Addis Ababa, in the province of Tigray, is the dusty overgrown village of Aksum. And at the end of its only paved street, inside an arid compound, is St Mary of Zion [...]
Eastern Africa: Legacy of Frailty
Gilbert M. Khadiagala
October 2008
International Peace Institute
Africa Program Working Papers Series
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Oct 2nd 2008
The spread of piracy just draws attention to the growing chaos on Somalia’s land
TIPPED off by friends in ports from Odessa to Mombasa, Somali pirates captured a Ukrainian freighter, the MV Faina, in the Gulf of Aden and steered it to Somalia’s coast. At first they demanded $20m for [...]
BBC
October 19, 2008
Wyre Davies
Video: Inside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre:
The stone huts of Deir al Sultan monastery are at the heart of the row
An unholy row is threatening one of the most sacred places in Christianity - the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.
The centuries-old site, where many [...]
ReliefWeb/UN
October 15, 2008
The United Nations, in conjunction with the Government of Ethiopia, has revised the financial requirements upward for humanitarian aid to Ethiopia. A total of $265.7 million is required over the next three months to provide urgent assistance to 6.4 million Ethiopians affected by an ongoing drought caused by failed rains and by increased [...]
