HARADHEERE, Somalia (Reuters) - The captain of a Virgin-Islands owned chemical tanker hijacked this week has died from gunshot wounds sustained when the ...
Somali judge who jailed pirates, Islamic insurgents gunned down while leaving mosque Gunmen have killed a top Somali judge who had sentenced many ...
Authorities in Somalia's breakaway Puntland region on Friday allowed local FM radio stations to resume rebroadcasting of Voice of America Somali language programmes. The programmes were ordered off air last week for failing to "objectively and accurately report about Puntland affairs," the ...
Somali pirates have freed three Seychellois who had been held hostage since their catamaran was hijacked in the Indian Ocean in February, the island nation's government said in a statement. However the three men were being held at an airport in Somalia ...
The number of hijacked vessels off the coast of Somalia is at a one-year low but both pirates and anti-piracy leaders are bracing for an inter-monsoon season that could herald a new flurry of attacks. Following the release of two Egyptian fishing ...
Police in Somalia's northern region of Puntland said Friday they have arrested six suspected pirates who were preparing to launch attacks from a coastal village near Bossaso. "The operation is the biggest of its kind... police arrested pirates with a large quantity ...
