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/ 26 November 2008
Somali gunmen kidnapped two Western journalists in Puntland on Wednesday, police said, n the latest attack on foreigners working in the country.
Gunmen holding a Dutch ship in northern Somalia demanded a ,1-million ransom for the vessel on Tuesday, a day after the United Nations Security Council gave countries the right to combat piracy off the Somali coastline. The MV Amiya Scan, managed by the Dutch Reider Shipping BV, was hijacked by Somali pirates on May 27.
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.
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/ 20 December 2007
A French journalist abducted by Somali gunmen wants international media watchdogs to press for his release, a Somali journalist related to the kidnappers said on Thursday. The group that seized Gwen Le Gouil is demanding 000 for his release.
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/ 4 December 2007
United States and German navy ships have cornered Somali pirates who seized a Japanese-owned chemical tanker more than a month ago and are demanding a ransom, an official said on Tuesday. The Panama-registered Golden Nori was carrying benzene from Singapore to Israel when it was hijacked on October 28.