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Since then the ministry says it's been confirmed that the boat was hijacked by pirates and was being sailed to the Somali coast.

Though Dobley is no longer on the front lines of Somalia's civil war, it has in recent months been at the front lines of the Somali famine.

To stop the division and the long-existing feud between senior Somali politicians, I decided to step down from my position.

Al Qaeda appears to be drawing closer to Somali insurgents in an effort to turn this country into a launching pad for global jihad.

That would be harder to do, since the country has no Somali community where Shabab infiltrators could hide.

It was the biggest vessel hijacked by the pirates so far, and joins at least a dozen others held in Somali ports waiting to be ransomed.

Above, Somali boys hang out on a hill overlooking a refugee camp for the thousands of internally displaced people.

Somali government spokesperson Omar Osman says the point of the operation was to protect displaced people living in refugee camps.

Police raiding home in Britain arrests Somali man believe to be one of fugitive bombers in last week's fail in London transit system.

Four days later the Blida's Ukrainian captain sent word that the ship was berthed off the Somali coast near the pirate lair of Garacad.

Reported that this was the first killing of American hostage by Somali pirates.

The yacht, carrying two couples and a three-year-old boy, was more than 640 kilometers off the Somali coast when it was seized.

The Somali parliament wants African troops to help return law and order after fifteen years without a strong government.

About 100 ships -- seven of them Chinese -- have been attacked by Somali pirates since the beginning of the year.

"The last group of pirates has got down now and MV Faina is released, " he said, speaking from the Somali port of Harardhere.

A Somali boy tries to drink from a cup as he waits in line with his mother at a camp in Kenya's sprawling Dadaab refugee complex.

Seven days later, their second-in-command came to me with a signed letter written in both Somali and English.

Crowley said the Ugandan leader remains committed to his country's participation in the Somali peacekeeping mission.

Somali pirates aboard the vessel are said to be demanding a $25 million ransom for release of the ship and its international crew.

Somali expert Ken Menkhaus believes retreat was the best of a range of bad options for the insurgency.

Gunmen kidnapped two aid workers from a Somali town near the Ethiopian border, Save the Children said Friday.

Lamamra told VOA it is up to Somali political and clan leaders to put a stop to it.

The waters off the Somali coast, moreover, have become one of the prime zones of piracy at sea, disrupting shipping through the Suez Canal.

Picking through the carnage, Uganda's police found a severed head with "Somali features" .

For now, it could help navies struggling to police the vast area of the Gulf of Aden and along the rest of the Somali coast. The U.

I told her I had made a BBC radio programme about Somali pirates and had learned they did not usually harm foreign captives.

That helps explain how a ragged band of pirates operating off the Somali coast can have such a disruptive impact.

Still Want to Go? It is possible to obtain a tourist visa through the Somali embassies in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and Nairobi, Kenya.

The EU's anti-piracy force said the skipper was rescued after fleeing captivity upon landing at the Somali coast.

An explosion at a mosque in the southern Somali city of Kismayu has killed at least one person, at least five worshipers were injured.

"Somali young mujahideen, " he said, "will fight any troops deployed here until our last holy fighter passes away. "

Islamist fighters have made steady advances against forces controlled by an alliance of secular Somali warlords.

At least two people have been killed after clashes broke out at a huge camp for Somali refugees in northeastern Kenya.

A Somali man captured by the US navy during a confrontation with a group of pirates is to be flown to New York to face prosecution.

Some reckon that the Shabab shares some of the ransoms earned by pirates who operate out of the central Somali port of Haradheere.

On October first, Somali pirates kidnapped a disabled French woman from her home in Kenya who has since died in captivity.

Rachel Chandler broke down in tears during her first contact after being taken hostage by Somali pirates.

They seized six vessels within a week, including a freighter with 21 American crewman on board about 450km (280 miles) off the Somali coast.

Somali pirates tonight demanded a ransom payment of $7m (? 4. 2m) for the safe return of a British couple who they kidnapped a week ago.

Five Somali men convicted of attacking a US Navy ship they mistook for a merchant vessel have been sentenced to life in prison.

Somali government forces and AMISOM have pushed al-Shabab out of Mogadishu and have made gains in other parts of the country.

The U. N. Security Council recently adopted a resolution calling for tougher anti-piracy measures off the Somali coast.

The point is not to engage offensive against Somali pirates.

These outsiders exploited the absence of a functioning Somali state capable of protecting its coastal waters.

NATO ships began anti-piracy operations off the Somali coast in late October, but they have failed to stop the hijackings.

Each laser has an integral radar to help it lock automatically on to the small, fast vessels usually used by Somali pirates.

The United States says al-Shabab has links to al-Qaida, and foreigners are believed to be fighting alongside the Somali insurgents.

I myself, I will help the incoming new government, and I shall do all I can, going forward; all the Somali politicians should do the same.

Reports emerged this year that the U. S. -backed Somali government enlisted child soldiers in their fight against rebel Islamist fighters.

Displaced hope: Hundreds of thousands of Somali refugees have fled the fighting in Mogadishu since civil war broke out in 1991.

A Somali mother almost reduced to begging told us our food-for-work program had not only saved her life, but restored her dignity.

Somali teenager could face up to life in prison if convicted of piracy charges.

The current Somali government is facing a crossroads with its seven-year mandate set to expire in August of this year.

There, the two talked up the two nation's cooperation in combating Somali pirates, but that wasn't the real point of the meeting.

"This was a commendable action against the Somali pirates, " says Uday Bhaskar, an Indian defense expert.

Mr Mohamed said he was quitting in the interests of the Somali people.

Baobab has not yet been able to verify it, but even Somali porn is said to be being made and sold.

Thousands of young desperate Somali [migrants] continue to risk their lives in the sea in search of a better life abroad.

ABDIWELI ALI: "It went through a difficult process, but with all the challenges that we faced, we finally delivered to the Somali people. "

Somali pirates seized control of the German-owned merchant vessel Beluga Fortune in the Indian Ocean on Sunday, Reuters reports.

A senior commander of the Somali Islamist group, al-Shabab, has been shot dead at close range as he left a mosque in the city of Kismayo.

Therefore, the total loss claim was denied due to the seizure of the goods by Somali pirates.

The possession of goods by Somali pirates aimed for the ransom and the goods were forecasted to be returned through the payment of ransom.

The fact that Somali legal terminology is practically devoid of loanwords from foreign languages suggests that the Xeer is truly indigenous.

France is also reported to have bombarded settlements near the Somali port of Kismayo, a base for the al-Qaeda-linked Shabab militia.

(He shooed away attempts to be photographed. ) He was wearing a striped Somali shirt someone had given him, white pants and sandals.

Yacht hijacked by the United States regarding the First Secretary of the Somali Mission to the United Omar Jamal confirmed.

The two -- a Somali national and a Briton -- worked for the organization and were seized Thursday night, the group said.

Russian forces have freed the crew of a Russian oil tanker captured by Somali pirates off the coast of Yemen.

The Somali Islamist group al-Shabab says it has taken control of the southern town of Afmadow without any resistance from rival militants.

She never forgot watching those Somali families as they waited calmly and quietly in line for a turn that many never got.

At least eight people have died in renewed fighting in the Somali capital Mogadishu.

This year, UNICEF has added four additional teams in the Somali region, bringing the total number of mobile units it supports to 24.

Somali pirates operate up to 800 miles out to sea , loiter for weeks and even attack at night .

America agrees, but only if the deployment of blue helmets is matched by an effort to build a new Somali national army.

Commander Patch believes he has come up with a proposal to deal with Somali pirates. He outlines it in the Armed Forces Journal.

Nearby is an old dog-eared timetable for Somali airlines titled, "The White Star Service. "

From birth, every Somali has his own judge who will sit on the court that willjudge him should he transgress the law.

Maritime officials said Friday Somali pirates have hijacked a Taiwanese fishing boat off the far southeast coast of Mauritius.

On Sunday, Navy snipers shot dead three Somali pirates holding cargo ship captain Richard Phillips captive off the coast of Somalia.

Attacks by black South Africans on Somali shopkeepers and hostility to Zimbabwean immigrants both appear to be rising.

To illustrate the stakes, let me share a Mother's Day story about a pregnant 30-year-old Somali woman named Hinda Hassan.

Its army has been deployed at the border and sometimes across it, but has been unable to stem the influx of Somali refugees.

Some missiles fired from American submarines off the Somali coast have indeed killed Islamist insurgent leaders.

MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota (CNN) -- A Somali teen who left Minnesota to return to his native country last November has been reported killed.

He was robbed a month ago, and he knows a Somali shopkeeper who was also robbed and then shot by the perpetrators.

Somali piracy takes the form of hijacking and extortion, rather than conventional robbery at sea.

Perhaps more likely, it may have been Hassan Turki, a Somali jihadist commander on America's terrorist list.

Kenya has vowed to continue fighting until it has curtailed the activities of the Somali militant group al-Shabab.

The aid agency Oxfam has called on the Kenyan authorities to allow Somali drought victims into a camp inside Kenya but which is empty.

Kenya has vowed to continue fighting until it has curtailed the activities of the Somali militant group al-Shabab.

The aid agency Oxfam has called on the Kenyan authorities to allow Somali drought victims into a camp inside Kenya but which is empty.

East Africa drought continues, thousands of Somali refugees, the influx of refugee camps in Ethiopia and Kenya, in search of food.

Lighter weapons may have been offloaded on the Somali shore before an American warship arrived on the scene.

The teenager is thought to have left Minnesota with other Somali-American youths, heading for Shabaab's jihadist boot camps.

Or, as another senior Wall Streeter put it, bankers are now "a lower form of life than Somali pirates" .

The plan was for Ethiopia to squash an Islamist movement and reinstate a Somali government that had lost control of most of its territory.

They were handed over to local officials in the Somali town of Adado, before being flown to the capital Mogadishu and on to Nairobi.

If Somali women had half as many pregnancies (they now average six births), there would be only half as many maternal deaths.

Kenya says it has arrested a number of Shabab fighters in the town, including some non-Somali jihadists.

Kenya says it has arrested a number of Shabab fighters in the town, including some non-Somali jihadists.

Pirates are holding at least six vessels in Somali waters.

It comprises a 245-member assembly in which the main blocs are supporters of the United Somali Congress and the Somali National Movement.

However, in-depth exploration, it is easy to tell that supporting Somali would be even more efficient instead of attacking them.

They were angered by the lack of aid and supplies from the Somali government and international community.

IN THE back room of a Somali mosque, a conservative Muslim cleric explains the finer points of a religious state.

He often ventured into the Somali desert, moving along the dried up river beds at night with groups of young fighters.

If they succeed, the consequences will be felt in places like this remote Somali town.

A bigger foreign presence means shoring up a Somali government widely derided for corruption and infighting.

Nine Somali journalists have been killed so far this year .

A UN envoy for Somalia strongly condemned the killing of a prominent Somali comedian and media worker.

The newspaper identified them as a Somali-born German, Omar D. and a Somali citizen, Abdirazak B.

The force said the Somali pirates were now controlled 22 ships, taking 521 hostages.

Most Somali children have not been immunized because humanitarian assistance was very limited for the past several years due to insecurity.

International navies, he says, should not just chase pirates but should also protect Somali waters from illegal fishing.

US Marines patrolled the skies over the Somali coast as negotiations for Captain Phillips' release unfolded.

A sick Somali refugee woman rests inside a clinic at the Kobe refugee camp, near the Ethiopia-Somalia border.

Mr Bush's critics were not confined to bleeding-heart liberals who are even now making a fuss about the rights of a captured Somali pirate.

But the overall situation in Somalia remains fragile and requires additional efforts by the Somali parties and the international community.

Somali-Americans in Minnesota at a car washing fundraiser to help Somali drought victims.

The Secretary General of the National Union of Somali Journalists, Omar Faruk, says the kidnappers appear to simply be after money.

But there is no functioning Somali government to hand him over to, so American helicopters vaporised him.

She proposed that she would train 500 Somali seafarers to patrol their own waters and discourage locals from turning to piracy.

Definiti on on pirate stipulated by United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea to some extent restricts combating Somali pirate.

Oromo rebels in south and east Ethiopia and Somali secessionists in the east of the country are likely to fight more fiercely.

Language: English and Swahili are the official language. Kikuyu, Somali and Luo are also widely spoken.

There's no connection between the guerrillas who fought the Contras and Al Qaeda, or Colombia's FARC and Somali pirates.

He says deepening drought and a rise of Somali refugees in Kenya are putting greater pressure on that country.

Mr. Obama spoke one day after the dramatic rescue of an American cargo ship captain who was held hostage by Somali pirates for five days.

Somali pirates holding a Spanish fishing boat and its crew hostage have said they will only negotiate their release if colleagues are freed.

In a separate incident, a Belgian ship was captured by pirates 600 kilometers off the Somali coast.

The U. N. refugee agency reported Tuesday that 20, 000 Somali civilians have fled in the last two weeks alone.

Police believe an al-Qaida-linked Somali militant group may have been behind the attacks.

Hundreds of Somali aid workers, human-rights campaigners and journalists have been killed or exiled.

Twelve South Pacific islanders taken hostage by Somali pirates earlier this year have been released.

Language: Somali and Arabic are the official languages, English and Italian are also spoken.

THE latest African voice to resonate across the world belongs to a 31-year-old Somali singer known simply as K'naan.

Somali pirates took advantage of improved weather conditions at sea and stepped up their attacks on foreign ships.

Officials say the president's brother was among those killed when two explosions went off outside the Somali parliament building in Baidoa.

He wants an Islamic emirate of Somalia, taking in the mainly Somali parts of Ethiopia and Kenya.

International naval patrols against Somali pirates have made shipping lanes much safer.

WHO will continue working with Somali authorities and health providers to improve health care and conditions for the country's people.

Mainland warships will rescue a Taiwan fishing vessel hijacked by Somali pirates if conditions allow, a military source said Tuesday.

Robbery against ships for ransom is the greatest force the pirates, Somali pirates are no exception.

The International Maritime Bureau says pirate attacks off the Somali coast increased to 102 from 53 in the first three months of this year.

In March of 2006 , Somali pirates seized twenty Filipino seamen on an oil ship at a southern Somali port .

Thetask ahead is to see the work translated into Somali.

U. S. Navy snipers shot and killed three Somali pirates Sunday in a daring high-seas rescue of captain Phillips.

Specifically, on December 2, the UNSC extended the U. S. -sponsored Resolution 1846, which allows navies to combat piracy in Somali waters.

Suspicions have fallen on the Somali militant group, al-Shabab, which is active in areas of Somalia close to the Kenyan border.

The first European trial of Somali pirates is set to open Tuesday in the Netherlands, AFP reported.

They leave Bosaso on the northern Somali coast and hope to arrive somewhere along the Yemeni coast.

But locals affirm that Ethiopian as well as Somali troops forced an Islamist retreat from the hilltop town.

At first they were mainly foreign but now they tend to be Somali boys educated in the movement's religious schools.

Islamist militiamen have clashed with their secular rivals in a bloody battle for territorial control in the Somali capital, Mogadishu.

In another case, federal officials are investigating the disappearances of more than twenty young Somali men.

Somali "Youth Party" is the main anti-government Somali armed groups, control most of Somalia territory.

However, not only did the northern Somali clans notrecognize the TNG, it was unable to control its intended capital city ofMogadishu.

Maritime experts believe the Somali pirates receive targeting tips from contacts working in regional ports.

Saudi supertanker hijacked by Somali pirates has been anchored off the Somali coast.

After registration, newly arrived Somali refugees in the Dadaab camps are medically screened and vaccinated.

Kenyan officials benefit from that trade and from turning a blind eye to the import of Somali cattle for slaughter in Nairobi.

Last month he suspended the activities of about 40 of them from the Somali-populated parts of the country.

That said, an Indian Navy frigate attacked and sank a Somali pirate 'mother ship' on Wednesday morning after coming under fire.

Feeble though it is, the Somali government does not seem under serious threat of being overthrown soon.

Hassam Omar, a Somali refugee living in Pretoria, was attacked during the spate of xenophobic violence that rocked South Africa in 2008.

Many deals are done in Somali shillings, a currency without a central bank to support it.

They found that Somali pirates pretend to be more sophisticated than they are, whereas shipowners pretend to be poorer.

The Chinese bulk carrier De Xin Hai appeared off the Somali port of Hobyo, according to a video shown by Shanghai-based Dragon TV Wednesday.

The attacks were allegedly carried out by the Somali Islamist militant group Al-Shabaab, which released a statement claiming responsibility.

This is from the Somali language and literally means'neck like a giraffe' and this is reflected in its English name.

He says internal weakening, and a loss of faith in al-Shabab by the Somali people is tearing the group apart.

Mainland warships escorted the Taiwan merchant vessel Yushan through Somali waters in mid-January.

Ethnic-Somali rebels in the south-east of Ethiopia say they have launched an offensive against government forces and captured several towns.

Spiralling food costs and the diving value of the Somali shilling have made things worse.

Calls to Somali government officials and the local administration in Kismayo rang unanswered Saturday.

The Somali Islamist group al-Shabab has said it's banning a popular method of transferring money via mobile phones in the areas it controls.

Saudi Arabian supertanker, the Sirius Star, was seized by Somali pirates about 450 nautical miles off the Kenyan coast on November 15th.

Somali pirates boarded the Montecristo, an Italian bulk carrier, in the Indian Ocean on Monday. Photograph: AP.

A woman carries a child at a makeshift shelter in the Somali capital of Mogadishu, July 27, 2011.

According to Somali historians, the wedding is the first of its kind in Somalia for over a century.

Mainland warships will rescue a Taiwan fishing vessel hijacked by Somali pirates if conditions allow.

He saw it as a sign of how well the state's Somali community has become established since he arrived in 1994 as a refugee.

AP reports. A rookie author, Jay Bahadur, narrates his experience among pirates in cliff-top Somali village.

The ships would mainly stay in international waters but could enter Somali territory if the situation warranted it, he added.

However, eradicating Somali piracy is as hard as it is desirable.

Several tracks on his new album, "Troubadour" , have Somali lyrics.

When Somali pirates or Russian gangsters demand payment in yuan, it will be the surest sign that economic power has shifted to China.

China is actively considering sending warships to participate in convoy actions in the Somali sea and Gulf of Aden.

"There are 25 Chinese on board, and she is about 350 miles north of the Seychelles and 700 miles off the Somali coast, " he said.

"They can't even deal with the Somali pirates, " says Hamas's foreign-affairs spokesman, Osama Hamdan, with a chuckle.

China will send its navy ships to Somali waters to combat pirates, the Foreign Ministry announced on Thursday.

The most lucrative import is qat, a stimulating leaf chewed by Somali men. It arrives on small planes from Kenya and Ethiopia.

EU naval forces have conducted their first raid on pirate bases on the Somali mainland, saying they have destroyed several boats.

In perhaps their most audacious act , Somali pirates have boarded a Ukrainian ship carrying arms .

Smaller ships, closer in, let's prevent the piracy problem from leaving Somali territorial waters.

Captured vessels are usually sailed into Somali waters until a ransom is paid.

Somali pirates shot to death four Americans taken hostage on their yacht several hundred miles south of Oman.

A new report says Somali pirates remain a threat to international shipping despite the efforts of the world's navies.

In this paper, the solubilization characteristic of somali in water was investigated.

A call from a Somali mobile phone is generally cheaper and clearer thana call from anywhere else in Africa.

Somali violence is a symptom of state failure; Sudanese violence is a consequence of state policy.

Somali pirates have hijacked dozens of ships in recent years, taking in tens of millions of dollars in ransom.

She's perpetually angry. She curses like a Somali sailor.

They were accused of attacking a German cargo ship off Somali coast and will be tried in Hamburg's first piracy trial for 400 years.

Analysts say the Somali pirates target all sorts of vessels: from small pleasure crafts to cargo ships and even giant oil supertankers.

"Pirates, pirates, pirates, " said Gure Ahmed, a Canadian-Somali inmate of the jail, charged with murder.

A 19-year-old Somali man was arrested in Portland for allegedly planning to detonate a bomb at a Christmas tree lighting ceremony.

Shabab has been particularly successful in recruiting foreign fighters and Somali exiles.

Of course, no Somali government official would openly admit that New Boosaaso's minicastles were built with pirate proceeds.

Some of them have cut dubious deals with Somali warlords to fish in Somali waters.

Six Somali pirates were captured by sailors of the frigate Karlsruhe in the Gulf of Aden.

And Somali officials say the C. I. A. will open a base in the old officer quarters near Mogadishu's airport.

His family set up a new home amidst the tents and shelters that accommodate thousands of other Somali refugees in the area.

So news on October 19th that Somali pirates had hijacked a Chinese commercial vessel in the Indian Ocean caused a stir at home.

Somali adolescent girls are often married off to older men.

Michelle's mother hoped that the founder of the Cancer Warrior's Foundation James Auste could help send the letter to the Somali pirates.

A Somali pirate gang said it will kill 25 Chinese sailors aboard a hijacked ship if China makes good on a threat to launch a rescue attempt.

Some of the world's heaviest shipping traffic passes the Somali coast.

He also accuses Eritrea of egging on Oromo rebels in the south and Somali separatists in the Ogaden region.

Somali pirates have been active in the Gulf of Aden for some years, but the threat is spreading further, according to experts.

FBI negotiators are working to free an American cargo ship captain being held by Somali pirates.

Somali pirates have begun preying on tankers and freighters bound for China from the Mideast.

Some cells promote a Somali national spirit whereas others extol al-Qaeda's pan-Islamic vision.

In the common fight against Somali pirates, the EU welcomed Ukraine's accession to codenamed "Atlantic" anti-piracy task forces.

"We condemn all pirate actions and we're willing to combat the pirates under permission from the Somali government, " Qin said.

AU Commission Chairman Jean Ping has called the surge of Somali piracy an extension of the anarchy and political chaos gripping the country.

Unidentified vessels poach an estimated $450 million in seafood from Somali waters annually.

The warships may also deter illegal fishing in Somali waters and the dumping of toxic waste.

Brazil is giving more to the Somali famine than Germany, France and Italy combined.

In another case, federal officials are investigating the disappearances of more than 20 young Somali men.

The EU flag flutters from warships hunting Somali pirates, and snaps in the Kabuli breeze, notably over an EU police-training base.

Of 51, 000 interpretations in 2009, he said, 10 percent were in Somali and 12 percent in Arabic.

He blamed Islamic extremists who are battling the Somali government for exacerbating the crisis.

It is separated from the SOMALi BASIN (of the same sea) by the CARLSBERG RIDGE.

Many of the protestors wore traditional white Somali clothes and shouted "down with al-Shabab" .

The Somali government officially opposes the payment of ransoms, but the practice has become routine.

There were no African forces, neither were Somali security forces there.

Are the Somali pirates ordinary criminals, or a quasi-military force?

There are Somali Bantus farming in Boise, Idaho, and refugees from Burundi growing crops in Seattle, Washington.

He adds that much of the opposition has "links to the Shabab [the Somali al-Qaeda group] and Eritrea" , but that is delusional.

Somali Pirates Who Look Like 'Pirates Of The Caribbean'

Somali arrested at airport with chemicals, syringe.

The Somali rapper says he suffers "something like survivor guilt" , thinking of the people he grew up with.

Somali man tries to comfort his son, who aches to go outside and play.

Several hundred foreign fighters have joined its cause on Somali soil.

The IMB report, released Monday, also said Somali pirates were responsible for 35 of the 39 hijackings during that same period.

Sometimes Somali piracy suspects hire lawyers but don't end up paying them, he says.

An Italian tugboat and its crew of 16, seized by Somali pirates four months ago, has been released.

Somali pirates seized a 300000-ton tanker carrying crude oil from Saudi Arabia to the US, AP reported Monday.