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/ 10 September 2010
Somalis fleeing an offensive by Islamists in their capital described hellish scenes of putrefying corpses and graves hastily dug in gardens.
Somali pirates seized a Turkish ship with 23 crew on Wednesday, a shipping official and Nato spokesperson said.
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/ 22 October 2007
Somali pirates have seized a cargo ship off the East African coast, the head of a local seafarers’ association said on Monday. Gunmen attacked the vessel last Wednesday, said Andrew Mwangura, the programme coordinator of the East Africa Seafarers’ Assistance Programme, but due to chaotic communications with Somalia the incident had taken several days to confirm.
Out by Monrovia’s crumbling airport is a ramshackle settlement known by the Liberian people as Smell-no-taste. The older people still remember when United States soldiers were stationed there during World War II, tantalising hungry locals with the smell of their rations cooking. More than 50 years later, the people are still hungry and there is still no electricity, but there is a different smell in the air.