(SomaliNet) According to data from NATO, pirates have attacked six more vessels off the coast of Somalia in just the past week.
The now-infamous, weapons-clogged MV Faina remains in pirates' hands. And international tensions are ratcheting up by the day.
The latest attacks bring the total num
(SomaliNet) According to witnesses in Somalia, a large number of Ethiopian troops with more than 30 armoured vehicles left Luuq town in southwestern Somalia and headed to Ethiopia.
Local residents say the Ethiopian troops were stationed in El Berde District in Bakol Region, southwestern Somalia.
(SomaliNet) South Korea’s top diplomat said Tuesday that South Korea is considering dispatching a navy ship to waters off Somalia in a bid to protect its fishing and cargo ships from piracy.
"Consultations (among related ministries) are under way on the issue of dispatching a navy ship," Foreig
(SomaliNet) The pirates are demanding an $8 million ransom deal under which the boat would be freed in the next few days, an onshore associate of Somali pirates holding a Ukrainian ship with tanks and other weaponry on board said on Wednesday.
"A boat will carry the money from Djibouti and pirate
(SomaliNet) In a repeated call, the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday again urged countries with naval vessels deployed around the Horn of Africa to do whatever is needed to stamp out piracy off the coast of Somalia.
In June, the 15-nation council passed a similar resolution that gave countries th
(SomaliNet) Local residents said on Tuesday that the two Western aid workers kidnapped by Somali gunmen on the Ethiopian border are in good health and ransom negotiations are underway for their release.
The western workers, a man and a woman, worked for Medecins du Monde and were abducted last mo
(SomaliNet) In an effort to actively join the fight against rampant piracy off the coast of lawless Somalia, the UN Security Council on Tuesday unanimously adopted a resolution urging states to deploy naval vessels and military aircraft.
UN’s resolution 1838 "calls upon all states interested in
(SomaliNet) Saying they had been captured during fighting in Somalia, Ethiopia denied on Tuesday that eight Kenyans who were flown home at the weekend had been arrested in Kenya early last year as suspected Somali Islamists.
Meanwhile, rights activists and Muslim groups accuse Kenyan authorities
(SomaliNet) Unidentified gunmen in the central Somali town of Beledweyn shot dead a prominent clan elder who opposed the ban on the operations of aid agencies by an Islamist group, an Islamist spokesman said on Tuesday.
Leader of the local council of elders, Haji Daar Hirsi Horshow, was gunn
(SomaliNet) The U.N. chief said Tuesday that the beleaguered peacekeeping force in Sudan's violence-wracked Darfur region cannot be significantly strengthened this year because of increased dangers.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he has delayed his goal of putting 22,000 of the authorized
