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The European Union formally launches its anti-piracy task mission off the Somali coast on Monday, preparing to take over from the NATO flotilla guarding one of the world's most important shipping lanes.
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The recent hijacking of a Kenya-bound arms-carrying ship by Somali pirates should not have come as a surprise. The fruits of piracy are immense.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union aims to launch a planned air and naval force in December to combat piracy threatening sea lanes off Somalia, the bloc's foreign policy chief said Tuesday.
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A Ukrainian cargo ship loaded with weaponry remains in the hands of Somali hijackers.
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The military commander appointed Italian Giovanni Gomiro Maritime Command Maritime Forces Atlantic Treaty, which recently arrived off the coast of Somalia, according to the Italian defense ministry Monday.
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A NATO flotilla sailing toward the Somali coast will begin anti-piracy operations within the next few days, but officials said Wednesday the alliance was still working out the rules of engagement for the seven ships.
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A NATO flotilla sailing toward the Somali coast will begin antipiracy operations within the next few days, but officials said the alliance was still working out the ships' rules of engagement.
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A NATO flotilla sailing toward the Somali coast will begin antipiracy operations within the next few days, but officials said the alliance was still working out the ships’ rules of engagement.
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The waters off the coast of Somalia are the worst in the world for piracy, an international watchdog finds.
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When Bile Wadani is not counting his money, he counts his wives. So far he has three – but he promises there will be more to come. "I didn't ever dream I would marry three wives but I have that dream now because I can get as much money as I want."
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Hijackings are just the latest danger Kenyans face in a profession that has suffered under two decades of neglect and exploitation. The pirates pretended to be fishermen who'd run out of fuel. But when their fiberglass speedboat reached the South Korean tuna vessel, the "fishermen" pulled machine guns from under their shirts.
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Pirates who hijacked a Saudi-owned supertanker anchored the vessel off the north coast of Somalia on Tuesday, while another cargo ship was also seized in the area.
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The U.N. Security Council unanimously agrees to impose new sanctions against Somalia aimed at stopping its booming pirate trade and lawlessness.
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LONDON -- Piracy on the high seas used to be a simple affair: Climb on board, take the valuables, and go.
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The UN security council voted to impose sanctions on anyone contributing to violence in Somalia. This as major shipping companies are being forced to divert their ships from the Suez Canal to longer routes to avoid Somali pirates.
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Negotiations continued for the release of a hijacked Saudi-owned oil supertanker, with the pirates asking for $25 million in ransom, news agencies reported.
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Every kid wants to be a pirate when he or she grows up-at least on Halloween on October 31 in North American when children and adults dress up as a popular character.
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Somali pirates have hijacked a Yemeni vessel, the MV Amani, in the Gulf of Aden near Yemen. This comes on the heels of an inundation of Somali attacks on pirate ships, some of which have included ransom demands.
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Representatives from states bordering the Red Sea met in Cairo last week to forge a common policy against the threat of maritime piracy. But some local commentators say recent deployments of foreign naval forces to the area to combat Somali
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Firing shots at a luxury cruise ship, taking a super tanker hostage: the papers are full of Somalia's audacious pirates. But the local fishermen grab fewer headlines -- and have a stricken existence.
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The European Union is sending a fleet of ships to the troubled waters off Somalia's coast, in the first naval-crisis management operation ever launched by the 27-member group.
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At least eight member states will participate in the operation
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The UN Security Council voted a resolution authorising countries fighting piracy off the Somali coast to carry out operations on Somalia's territory and in its airspace, subject to approval by its government.
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The UN Security Council has authorized nations fighting piracy along Somalia's coast to take action inside the country and in its airspace, pending approval from the Somali government.
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Pirate attacks in East African waters this year have disrupted the delivery of much-needed food aid to Somalia. With millions of lives at stake, U.N. World Food Program officials said the commencement last week of a European Union naval escort
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China said Thursday it is preparing to send warships to the coast of Somalia to counter piracy, an advance that would be its first military operation in the area.
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Beijing's move to possibly send naval vessels to the Gulf of Aden comes as pirates are prevented from taking over a Chinese commercial ship. China signaled Wednesday that it may send warships to help fight pirates off the coast of Somalia, a sign of Beijing's increasing willingness to flex its military muscle.
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LIFE once more imitates art. Captain Jack Sparrow became a Hollywood idol after the success of the three Pirates of the Caribbean films. In real life, piracy has become the curse of maritime trade, especially around the Horn of Africa.
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A Chinese naval force, two destroyers and one supply ship departed from south China's Hainan Island to patrol the Gulf of Aden off the coast of Somalia, in an effort to stave off the recent spate of pirate attacks against merchant vessels.
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Defence Minister Yasukazu Hamada (pictured) says Japan is speeding up preparations for a possible deployment of anti-piracy operations off the Somalian coast, despite limitations on Japanese military deployments dating from World War II.
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