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/ 21 November 2008
Piracy off Somalia is forcing shipping companies to avoid the Suez Canal and send cargoes on a longer journey around Southern Africa.
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/ 20 November 2008
Somali pirates who hijacked Saudi oil supertanker Sirius Star on Thursday demanded -million in ransom and set a 10-day deadline.
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/ 20 November 2008
The Saudi owners of the <i>Sirius Star</i> are in negotiations with Somali pirates who have demanded a ransom for the supertanker.
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/ 19 November 2008
India said it had destroyed a Somali pirate vessel in the Gulf of Aden as other Asian nations on Wednesday mulled sending navies to the area.
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/ 19 November 2008
More of the world’s big shipping firms are quietly diverting their fleets via the Cape instead of risking Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden.
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/ 18 November 2008
A Saudi oil supertanker hijacked by pirates has reached the coast of north Somalia, a regional maritime group said on Tuesday.
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/ 17 November 2008
Pirates have seized a Saudi-owned supertanker fully laden with oil off East Africa, the United Sates navy said.
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/ 10 November 2008
The EU on Monday formally launched an anti-piracy security operation off the coast of Somalia, the EU’s French presidency said.
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/ 1 November 2008
Egypt has called an urgent meeting of Arab countries bordering the Red Sea to combat piracy off Somalia, the Foreign Ministry said on Saturday.
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/ 29 October 2008
A number of ships off Somalia have thwarted attacks by pirates this week, the United States-led Combined Maritime Force said on Wednesday.
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/ 27 October 2008
Experts argue that a handful of warships can do little to stamp out the lucrative Somali piracy business.
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/ 23 October 2008
A Nato flotilla sailing toward the Somali coast will begin anti-piracy operations within the next few days, according to officials.
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/ 22 October 2008
Chinese internet users have expressed fury at Microsoft’s launch of an anti-piracy tool targeting Chinese computer users.
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/ 17 October 2008
India has deployed its navy in the Gulf of Aden near Somalia to protect Indian commercial vessels from pirates, news reports said on Friday.
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/ 15 October 2008
Nato warships were steaming through the Suez Canal on Wednesday en route to Somalia to help combat piracy off the lawless African country’s coast.
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/ 15 October 2008
Somali pirates hijacked a Philippines-managed bulk carrier with 21 sailors aboard on Wednesday, a maritime watchdog said.
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/ 14 October 2008
As Somalia sinks deeper into hunger and despair, attacking foreign ships is proving to be one of the few profitable activities in the country.
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/ 13 October 2008
Somali forces raided one of the many ships hijacked off the country’s coast as a deadline loomed in a stand-off aboard another, arms-laden vessel.
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/ 11 October 2008
The pirates who hijacked an arms-laden Ukrainian tanker off Somalia issued an ultimatum on Friday and threatened to destroy the ship.
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/ 10 October 2008
A ship laden with cement was hijacked in the pirate-ridden waters between Somalia and Yemen, a government official said on Friday.
Crew members aboard a Ukrainian ship hijacked off the coast of Somalia are living in fear of the pirates, says the United States Navy.
Kenya said on Wednesday it will send its navy to help break a two-week-old stand-off with Somali pirates holding an arms shipment.
Media watchdog RSF called on Tuesday for the release of a Kenyan arrested for giving ”alarming” information about the hijacking of a ship off Somalia.
US aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt was docked on Monday in Cape Town on a visit to SA aimed at building ties.
The increase in piracy in the Gulf of Aden could trigger a humanitarian and environmental disaster in the Horn of Africa, a report warns.
The US Navy on Wednesday piled pressure on Somali pirates holding out for a -million ransom for a Ukrainian cargo ship.
Somalia welcomes Russian help in fighting piracy off its coast, the country’s ambassador to Moscow said on Wednesday.
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/ 30 September 2008
Somali pirates holding a Ukrainian freighter carrying military hardware said on Tuesday the weapons were headed for Sudan and not Kenya.
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/ 28 September 2008
Somali pirates who seized a Ukrainian freighter carrying arms were surrounded on Sunday by several foreign warships.
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/ 27 September 2008
Somali pirates demanded a -million ransom on Saturday for a Ukrainian ship they had seized, which was carrying tanks and other military supplies.
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/ 26 September 2008
A Russian warship was heading for the pirate-ridden waters off Somalia on Friday after a Ukrainian freighter was seized with military hardware aboard.
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/ 26 September 2008
Pirates have seized a Ukrainian cargo ship carrying tanks off the coast of Somalia, a maritime official confirmed on Friday.