May 28—WALES — As the first seedlings began to spread their roots at the Somali Bantu Community Association’s Liberation Farms on Tuesday, U.S. Sen. Angus King stopped by to see how things were going. The two-term Maine independent came away impressed. “I like this on every level — the food, getting back to the land […]
JERUSALEM (AP) — A European naval force detained six suspected pirates on Friday after they opened fire on an oil tanker traveling through the Gulf of Aden, officials said, likely part of a growing number of piracy attacks emanating from Somalia. The attack on the Marshall Islands-flagged Chrystal Arctic comes as Yemen’s Houthi rebels have […]
Somali pirates have released a Bangladesh-flagged vessel and its 23-member crew after a ransom was reportedly paid. The MV Abdullah was carrying coal from Mozambique to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) when it was hijacked off Somalia’s coast about a month ago. The pirates alleged that they received $5m (£4m), but there is no independent […]
NEW DELHI (AP) — The Indian navy on Saturday said it intercepted a bulk carrier that was hijacked by Somali pirates and demanded they surrender. The navy said it intercepted the Maltese-flagged MV Ruen on Friday after it opened fire on an Indian warship in international waters. “The pirates onboard the vessel have been called […]
The Indian navy says it intercepted a bulk carrier that was hijacked by Somali pirates and demanded they surrender. The navy said it intercepted the Maltese-flagged MV Ruen on Friday after it opened fire on an Indian warship in international waters. “The pirates onboard the vessel have been called upon to surrender and release the […]
Militants from the al-Shabaab group have attacked a hotel near the presidential palace in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu, security sources and witnesses said. The Syl Hotel is popular with government officials. Witnesses said they heard blasts and gunfire coming from the hotel, with telling Reuters that fighters were still inside the building. It was not immediately […]
The al Qaida-linked militant group al-Shabab claimed an attack that killed three Emirati troops and a Bahraini military officer on a training mission at a military base in the Somali capital, authorities said on Sunday. Saturday’s attack targeted the troops at the General Gordon Military Base in Mogadishu. Few details were available about the attack […]
NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s naval forces rescued an Iranian-flagged fishing vessel hijacked by Somali pirates and freed its 19-member Pakistani crew off the east coast of Somalia, a navy statement said Tuesday. The rescue operation was the third this week involving Somali pirates and came a day after India’s forces freed another Iranian fishing […]
Indian and Seychelles forces separately rescued two fishing vessels on Monday hijacked by Somali pirates, and freed 23 crew members from Iran and Sri Lanka, both countries said in statements. The Seychelles’ defence forces and coast guard rescued six Sri Lankan fishermen whose vessel was hijacked by Somali pirates two days earlier while the Indian […]
The son of Somalia’s president has been fined $900 (£710) in Turkey for crashing his car into a motorcycle courier who later died. An Istanbul court on Tuesday found Mohammed Hassan Sheikh Mohamud guilty of death by negligence. The car he was driving collided with Yunus Emre Göçer’s motorbike in the city in November last […]
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Officials in Somalia say al-Shabab extremists on Wednesday killed one person and captured five others on a United Nations helicopter that made an emergency landing in an area controlled by the fighters. The minister of internal security of Galmudug state in central Somalia, Mohamed Abdi Aden Gaboobe, told The Associated Press […]
India has deployed its navy to aid the crew of a ship that was hijacked off Somalia’s coast. The vessel has 15 Indian crew members onboard, Indian media reports say. The crew sent a distress call to a UK marine agency, saying that “five to six unauthorised armed persons” had boarded the ship east of […]