Ever heard of Puntland? What about Abdirahman Mohamed Mohamud? Well he's the president of this "state of Somalia", as the MEA describes it. It's the ...
04:13 PM, May 18, 2012
Mumbai: Suspected Somali pirates have struck again. Liberian oil tanker MT Smymi has been hijacked by the suspected pirates off the coast of Oman. Eleven Indians were among the crew members being held captive. The oil tanker was a Very Large Crude Carrier (VLCC) and was carrying 1,35,000 tonnes of oil. The company owning the vessel is believed to be from Greece. Pirates based on the coast of northern Somalia...
10:27 AM, May 12, 2012
Nineteen years after the failed attempt to restore hope in Somalia, it appears the West is getting ready for another crack at Africa's Horn. The ...
01:31 PM, Apr 23, 2012
Mumbai: Somalian pirates have hijacked a Dubai-owned Nigeria-bound vessel and taken 22 crew members including 17 Indians hostage. The MT Royal Grace, a chemical tanker was hijacked on March 2 after it set off from a Sharjah port for Nigeria. Three Nigerians, one Pakistani and a Bangladeshi are also on board the MT Grace. Reports say the families of the crew members were not informed by the ship owner about...
09:15 AM, Apr 09, 2012
At least six people, including two of Somalia's top sports officials, were killed when a female suicide bomber struck a ceremony at Mogadishu's national theatre. ...
10:00 AM, Apr 05, 2012
Mogadishu: At least six people, including two of Somalia's top sports officials, were killed when a female suicide bomber struck a ceremony at Mogadishu's national theatre in an attack Islamist rebels said was aimed at assassinating government ministers. Al Shabaab insurgents claimed responsibility for the blast on Wednesday that killed the heads of Somalia's soccer federation and Olympic committee in yet another stark reminder of the fragile security in the...
08:54 AM, Apr 05, 2012
Somalia: A British tourist freed on Wednesday by Somali pirates after six months in captivity said she did not know for weeks that her husband was killed in the raid on a luxury beach resort on the Kenyan coast. "I just assumed he was alive," Judith Tebbutt said, speaking haltingly in a video broadcast by the BBC, adding that her son, Oliver, told her of the killing. "That was difficult,"...
02:41 AM, Mar 22, 2012
Mogadishu: Turkish Airlines started flights to Mogadishu this week, the first major international carrier to run a regular service to the Somali capital in more than two decades. Turkey's Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdag flew into Mogadishu to launch the twice-weekly Turkish Airlines service to Istanbul via Sudan's capital Khartoum. "Somalia was cut off but we have now connected it to the world," he told reporters at Mogadishu's airport on...
01:59 PM, Mar 07, 2012
Mogadishu: Pirates moved an American hostage at least three times in 24 hours and threatened on Thursday to kill him after US Navy SEALs rescued an American and a Dane in a bold, dark-of-night raid that raises questions about whether other Western captives are now in greater danger. "If they try again, we will all die together," warned Hassan Abdi, a Somali pirate connected to the gang holding the American,...
03:28 AM, Jan 27, 2012
Mogadishu: US special operations forces swooped into Somalia on Wednesday and rescued two hostage aid workers after killing their nine kidnappers, a rare and daring raid in the Horn of Africa nation to free foreign captives. American Jessica Buchanan, 32, and Poul Hagen Thisted, 60, of Denmark, humanitarian aid workers for a Danish demining group, were rescued three months after they were kidnapped on October 25 in the town of...
04:36 AM, Jan 26, 2012
Washington/Mogadishu: Helicopter-borne elite US Navy Seals struck deep into Somalia in a daring pre-dawn raid and freed two hostages - an American woman aid worker and a Dane - after a shootout with pirates holding them, leaving at least nine gunmen dead, a rare mission in the restive African nation. The secret operation to secure the safe release of 32-year-old Jessica Buchanan, an American citizen employed by the Danish Demining...
06:25 PM, Jan 25, 2012
New Delhi: As many as 21 Indian sailors, who were hijacked on ship MT Fairchem Bogey, were on Saturday freed by the Somali pirates. According to reports, the ship and the crew moved towards a safe sea port after they were freed by the pirates. The ship was hijacked on August 20, 2011. However, around 22 sailors are still in the captivity of the Somali pirates. ...
07:54 PM, Jan 14, 2012
Mumbai: There was great relief at last for 17 Indian sailors, who shared an emotional homecoming. The sailors from merchant tanker MT Savina Caylyn were freed by Somali pirates in December last year after the ship owner paid a multi-million dollar ransom. The 17 sailors were taken into captivity along with their oil tanker ship, Savina Caylyn, in February last year near Yemen. Earlier on Tuesday morning, 13 crew members...
07:42 AM, Jan 10, 2012
Mumbai: The families of MV Iceberg hostages have said that they want to meet the ship owner and the government is considering facilitating a meeting with the Dubai-based owner. The negotiations between the ship owner and pirates have failed. Six Indian hostages have been in the pirates' captivity for almost two years now. CNN-IBN had first established communication with captive sailors. ...
01:01 PM, Jan 05, 2012
Nairobi: A suicide bomber struck the Somali capital on Tuesday, the latest in a wave of deadly attacks in Mogadishu, and dozens of Islamist rebels and Somali government troops have been killed in fighting in the south. The car bomb exploded 50 metres from the recently reopened Turkish embassy, near to the Kilometre 4 (K4) junction, a busy intersection in Mogadishu's administrative district. A health official said at least three...
01:27 AM, Dec 07, 2011
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