January 25, 2012
Two Vietnamese sailors on a Taiwanese fishing boat hijacked by Somali pirates off the Indian Ocean two years ago have called home saying the pirates had chopped off an arm of the captain. The pirates are demanding a US$2.8-million ransom. On January 20, Tran Van Hung, one of the 26 crew members of the [...]
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November 8, 2011
Taiwanese authorities said Monday that a Taiwanese-flagged fishing boat with five Vietnamese sailors onboard was freed from Somali pirates after some of its crew members fought back against the pirates in the Indian Ocean, The China Post reported. The long-line Chin Yi Wen was hijacked on November 4 by six armed Somali pirates near the [...]
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September 24, 2011
File photo of MV Hoang Son Sun, which was released by Somali pirates Thursday after being captivated for nine months. Somali pirates have released a Vietnamese-owned cargo ship and 24 Vietnamese crewmen after receiving US$4.5 million in ransom, according to Somalia Report. The Mongolia-flagged ship MV Hoang Son Sun is currently making her way to [...]
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August 2, 2011
Somali refugees fetch water at a refugee camp in Dadaab, Kenya on July 31, 2011. The head of the African Development Bank, Donald Kaberuka, blamed the famine in Africa’s Horn of Africa region on climate change and "our collective failure to end the Somali civil war." "While this is a tragedy triggered by the worst [...]
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July 26, 2011
Internally displaced Somali men perform prayers over the body of a man who died of starvation July 25, 2011 at an IDP camp in Mogadishu. The UN World Food Program was set on Tuesday to start airlifting food to Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya after an emergency meeting in Rome on the drought-stricken Horn of Africa [...]
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July 20, 2011
A displaced Somali mother attends her malnourished child at southern Mogadishu's Banadir hospital on July 19, 2011 where medics have said most of the displaced children are ill and have been treated for severe malnutrition The death rate among drought-stricken Somalis arriving at refugee camps has reached several times above levels seen in emergency situations, [...]
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January 23, 2011
The Vietnamese-owned MV Hoang Son Sun, which was hijacked off the coast of Oman. Somali pirates have captured a Vietnamese-owned cargo ship and 24 Vietnamese crewmen off the coast of Oman, the European Union Naval Force (EUNAVFOR) reported on its website Thursday (January 20). Â According to EUNAVFOR, further details of the attack, which took [...]
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January 21, 2011
This undated handout photo released by South Korea’s military shows S.Korean soldiers aboard a helicopter aiming a machine gun at a pirate boat in waters off Somalia. South Korean navy commandos stormed a ship hijacked by Somali pirates in the Indian Ocean, rescuing all the crew and killing eight pirates, according to military officials. “Our [...]
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December 5, 2009
The international community has condemned a suicide bombing which killed at least 19 people including three Somali government ministers on Thursday . Somalia men carried the body of a Somali government minister, who was killed during an explosion at the Hotel Shamo in Mogadishu Dec. 3, 2009. (Xinhua/AFP Photo)In a joint statement issued in Nairobi, the EU, the [...]
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August 21, 2009
Islamist rebels in Somalia have retaken two main southern towns as heavy fighting in the center of the war-torn country left almost 20 people, mostly fighters, dead and dozens more wounded. Two insurgents from the Somali rebel group of Al-Shabaab hold the group’s flag at a press conference in Mogadishu, Somali, on Aug. 20, 2009.(Xinhua [...]
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