Driving a luxury 4×4 car and smoking imported cigarettes, Mohamed Said fears his flashy lifestyle as a Somali pirate could be about to come to an end.
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/ 3 December 2008
Somali pirates have freed a Yemeni cargo ship they seized last week after successful talks between authorities, clan elders and the gunmen.
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/ 24 November 2008
Thanks to some spectacular ocean catches, a former fishing outpost is now a booming mini-town, write Xan Rice and Abdiqani Hassan.
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/ 30 October 2008
North Somali authorities said on Thursday they had arrested a prominent local sheikh suspected of involvement in a wave of suicide attacks.
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/ 4 September 2008
Somali pirates have hijacked yet another ship and are taking it to their remote coastal base, a regional government official said on Thursday.
Troops from two feuding regions of Somalia are bracing for a possible showdown as they compete to rescue tourists held hostage by pirates.
Somali troops stormed a Dubai-flagged ship on Tuesday that had been hijacked off the Horn of Africa nation, releasing its crew and arresting seven pirates, authorities said. ”Our troops stormed on to the Al-Khaleej and engaged the pirates. There was brief fighting before they defeated them,” Abdirizak Hared, the mayor of Bosasso port, said.
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/ 6 February 2008
An explosion killed at least 20 people and wounded a hundred more on Tuesday in a northern Somali port where Somali and Ethiopian immigrants begin the dangerous crossing to Yemen. Most of the wounded were Ethiopian immigrants, Bosasso hospital nurse Mohamed Ali Hassan said.
United States aircraft are hunting foreign jihadists in the remote mountains of northern Somalia where American forces launched air strikes earlier this month, a regional official and residents said on Tuesday. Ibrahim Artan Ismail, security minister in the regional Puntland government, said his administration was working closely with the US military.