NAIROBI, Kenya - The spokesman for the European Union's anti-piracy force says Somali pirates have hijacked a Pakistan-flagged fishing vessel. Cmdr. John Harbour says the pirates seized the MV Shahbaig Tuesday. He says there are 29 crew on board and
MOGADISHU, Somalia - The Somali government replaced its police and army chiefs Sunday ahead of a planned military offensive, the Somali information minister said. The reshuffle came as fresh clashes between insurgents and government forces in the ru
MOGADISHU, Somalia - A suicide bomber disguised as a woman attacked a graduation ceremony in Somalia on Thursday, turning a rare reason to celebrate into carnage that killed at least 22 people — including medical students, doctors and three go
MOGADISHU, December 3 - A suicide bomber killed at least 19 people including three Somali government ministers on Thursday at a graduation ceremony in a Mogadishu hotel, witnesses and officials said.It was the worst attack in the lawless Horn of Afr
MOGADISHU, Somalia - A police spokesman says three Somali Cabinet ministers are among nine people killed in a bombing that ripped through a university graduation ceremony. The spokesman, Col. Abdilahi Hassan Barise, says the ministers for education,
HARADHEERE, Somalia - In Somalia's main pirate lair of Haradheere, the sea gangs have set up a cooperative to fund their hijackings offshore, a sort of stock exchange meets criminal syndicate. Heavily armed pirates from the lawless Horn of Africa n
Somali pirates have succeeded for only the second time in seizing one of the world’s biggest oil tankers after a Greek-owned crude oil carrier was seized around 1,000 miles off the Somali coast.The Maran Centaurus will be the 11th vessel seized in a
NAIROBI, Kenya - Somali pirates seized a tanker carrying crude oil from Saudi Arabia to the United States in the increasingly dangerous waters off East Africa, an official said Monday, an attack that could pose a huge environmental or security threa
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