[NMS Note: This interview has just gone live on YouTube, although it was filmed in 2011.] 05/07/2011 – In late 2008, Daily Telegraph correspondent Colin Freeman and Jose Cendon, a Spanish photographer travelled to Somalia to investigate the recent spate of piracy attacks that were terrorising shipping in the Gulf of Aden. Their aim was […]
New Delhi: Observing that Navy is prepared to tackle 26/11-type attack from outfits such as LeT, Admiral Nirmal Verma today said the “core concern” of the maritime force was about the coalescing of state and non-state actors. “The way we have prepared ourselves, we have always presumed this (a terror attack from sea). Even before (key […]
The resurgence of pirate attacks in African waters is now a subject of serious concern to African states and the international community. For the last decade, piracy in African waters is concentrated in three main regions, namely the Somali coast/the Gulf of Aden along the East African Coast; Nigeria’s territorial waters in West Africa; and […]
Published on August 7, 2012 by Mark Lowe · No Comments While Royal Navy ships protect the London Olympics others have rushed to prevent a pirate attack in the Middle East Minehunters protect drifting tanker in pirate waters The minehunters HMS Middleton and HMS Pembroke were in the Gulf of Aden on their way home […]
Ramola Talwar Badam DUBAI // The freed captain of the MV Albedo said yesterday that the hardest part of his 21 months as a hostage was calming down the trigger-happy gang of Somali pirates and keeping them from shooting his 22-man crew. But that, said Jawaid Khan, made him the prime target of their anger […]
Published on August 6, 2012 by Mark Lowe · No Comments In late 2008, Daily Telegraph correspondent Colin Freeman and Jose Cendon, a Spanish photographer travelled to Somalia to investigate the recent spate of piracy attacks that were terrorising shipping in the Gulf of Aden. Their aim was to track down some of the pirates […]
Published on August 6, 2012 by Mark Lowe · No Comments According to the freed captain of the MV Albedo, the hardest part of his 21 months as a hostage was calming down the trigger-happy gang of Somali pirates and keeping them from shooting his 22-man crew. Trigger-happy pirates ‘found it easy to kill’By Ramola […]
Royal Navy ships protect the MV New Delhi Express. Photo: Royal Navy While Royal Navy ships protect the London Olympics others have rushed to prevent a pirate attack in the Middle East. The Portsmouth minehunter HMS Middleton and Faslane-based HMS Pembroke were in the Gulf of Aden on their way home when they received a distress […]
Connor Molloy A commander in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps is accusing Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and the United Arab Emirates of supporting Somali piracy. The state-run Fars News Agency quoted General Mohammad Nazzeri, of Iran’s navy as claiming, “the pirates of the Gulf of Aden are simple fishers but their sponsors and main leaders are […]
By An Baijie, and Hu Yongqi (China Daily) Crew members held hostage by Somali pirates for 19 months finally go home To celebrate his homecoming on Wednesday morning, the family of Zhang Leilei followed Chinese tradition by setting off firecrackers. But the sound only reminded the fisherman of gunshots in the pirates’ boat, and made him tremble. The 30-year-old […]