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A maritime official says an Egyptian cargo ship with 25 crew has been hijacked by pirates in the Gulf of Aden near Somalia. Noel Choong of the International Maritime Bureau says the ship was seized late Wednesday, making...
5 September 2008 – The top United Nations envoy to Somalia today said that he is extremely alarmed by the rise in piracy off the Horn of Africa nation's coast and deplored the destabilizing effects of the attacks...
A vessel carrying an unspecified number of French tourists has been hijacked off the Somali coast, officials say. The BBC's Ahmed Ali says a delegation of officials from the semi-autonomous northern region of Puntland has...
The Malaysians are reacting to the capture of a could of their merchant ships by sending navy ships and pirate fighting troops to the Gulf of Aden, as reported here:Malaysia has sent crack troops and navy ships to the...
