Somalia: New Constitution Creates Rifts
Region: SomaliaWritten by Ndesanjo Macha Somalia [1] has never had a central government controlling the entire country since the fall of Muhammad Siad Barre [2] in 1991. The Transitional Federal Government [3](TFG) is the internationally recognized government of the Republic of Somalia. After political discussions in Ethiopian, leaders of various Somali parties agreed to political steps [4] to end the transitional period ... more
Views: 885The U.S.A. Admit Naval Incident Off Somalia
Region: Somalia
THE U.S.AMERICAN NAVY FINALLY ADMITS TAIWANESE FISHING VESSEL INCIDENT OFF SOMALIA (ecop-marine) Only after ECOTERRA Intl. publicly reprimanded the non-transparency and non-reporting of the navies in their military actions off the Somali coast and in this specific case ECOP-marine had earlier reported that the Taiwanese captain of the vessel and others had been killed in the naval attack which the group already pres... more
Views: 3865Whose Navy Killed Five Somalis at Labad ?
Region: Somalia
THE COWARDS OF LABAD (ecop-marine) WHOSE NAVY KILLED FIVE SOMALIS AT THE BEACH OF LABAD ON 24. OCTOBER 2010 ? Incident Date: Sunday, October 24, 2010 early nightly hours Location: off Labad (about 30 kilometers from Hobyo at the Central Somali Indian Ocean coast) Casualties 4 Somali Nationals killed instantly Wounded: 3 Somali Nationals (one died later) Small Somali Boat destroyed during the attack Situat... more
Views: 2219NATO Navies Go Crazy In Somali Waters
Region: Somalia
NATO NAVIES GO CRAZY IN SOMALI WATERS (ecop-marine) After it has now transpired that a meanwhile clearly identified navy under NATO command actually fired the first shot in the incident involving a pirated Iranian fishing vessel directly at the coast of Somalia (within the 12nm zone, within the 200nm territorial waters of Somalia and within the 200nm EEZ), killing five and injuring eight with other Somalis as well... more
Views: 3332Terrorists behead teenagers as battle with Somali government heats up
Region: SomaliaOn Tuesday, Somalia's answer to al-Qaeda, Al Shabaab executed two teenagers in the central Somali region of Hiran. The executioners decapitated the young men during a public execution. Insurgents loyal to Al Shabaab had captured 19-year old Abdikafi Mohammed Rashid, and his younger cousin Muhyedin Rashid Hajji, 18, and brought them to the regional capital of Hiran where they exe... more
Views: 2194All Levels Of Piracy Activity Escalate
Region: Somalia
RANSOMS, CASES AND VIOLENCE FURTHER ESCALATE IN THE SOMALI PIRACY CIRCUS (ecop-marine) As partner of London Law firm Ince & Co, Stephen Askins often reviews recent developments in relation to piracy. His new take is on the use of armed guards on vessels travelling through the Gulf of Aden and other areas of high piracy risk. In his latest article he covers the key issues that shipowners, charterers and insurers sho... more
Views: 2322Somali piracy murders: Americans mourn the loss of hostages
Region: SomaliaPeople throughout the United States today are mourning the loss of four Americans killed by Somali pirates aboard a sailing vessel in the Indian Ocean this morning. U.S. officials were in the process of negotiating with the pirates for the safe return of the captured Americans when the murders took place, officials said. U. S. Central Command officials said that in the midst of negotiations, U.S. f... more
Views: 1776Peace Keepers or Biological Warfare Agents ?
Region: Somalia
PEACE-KEEPERS OR BIOLOGICAL WARFARE AGENTS ? By Venatrix Fulmen A Call to End the Deadly Impact of Foreign Troopers on Innocent Civilians OUTBREAK +++Cholera+++RiftValleyFever+++MarburgFever+++DengueFever+ ++YellowFever+++HIV/AIDS+++Malaria+++AvianFlu+++SwineFlu++ +++HantaVirus+++ and so on - these lines run through the news tickers of media agencies every day. In well-off societies, at least the pharma... more
Views: 4492Japan - One of the Top Pirates in Somalia
Region: SomaliaJapanese corporate kleptomania in bed with anarchic state By Venatrix Fulmen (WTN) Not only does Japan steal precious tuna from Somalia, now they robbed the country's top-level domain. That piracy is all about business is known since the days of the Barbary wars, but in Somalia it has now taken on new dimensions. DOMAIN-PIRATES Japan just poached the impoverished country's top-level Internet domain, the so call... more
Views: 3963WARNINGS Concerning Somali Piracy for Indian Ocean
Region: Somalia
Ever Larger Hostage Ships Taken for Piracy Hunts (ecop-marine) With more and more ship-owners resorting to a relaxed negotiation strategy if they are either well or not at all insured, and since the public is no longer shocked over the plight of hostage seafarers, pirates have changed strategy and use larger and larger vessels from their looted stock for piracy missions. Newly sea-jacked FV SHIUH FU No.1, which sho... more
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