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| Tsunami aid ship hijacked |
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NAIROBI - A United Nations-chartered vessel carrying aid for Somali tsunami victims has been hijacked off the coast of Somalia amid a flurry of new piracy warnings for the area, the World Food Programme (WFP) has said. The freighter hauling 850 tons of Japanese and German food aid was seized by unidentified pirates on Monday between Haradhere and Hobyo, about 300km north-east of Mogadishu, WFP said. "It is against international humanitarian law to hinder the passage of humanitarian assistance and there is no justification for hijacking," it said. The WFP country director for Somalia, Robert Hauser, appealed for the immediate release of the ship, its 10-member crew and the food aid and urged "local authorities and community elders to intervene in this regard". The Japanese- and German-donated rice was donated in response to a WFP appeal for assistance to about 28,000 Somalis affected by last year's (December 26) tsunami that devastated countries around the Indian Ocean. The ship, the St Vincent and the Grenadines-registered MV Semlow, had been on its way from the Kenyan port of Mombasa to Bossaso in Somalia's north-east Puntland region when it fell afoul of the pirates in waters deemed highly unsafe by international maritime agencies. Both the International Maritime Board (IMB), a division of the International Chamber of Commerce, and the US have issued a series of increasingly dire alerts about threats to shipping off the east and north-east Somali coasts. Earlier this month, the IMB warned of a surge in piracy in the region and advised vessels not making calls in the region to stay at least 85km, and preferably further away, from the coast of the lawless nation. The WFP hijacking was the sixth reported piracy incident in Somali waters since March, which included one earlier this month in which a US naval destroyer intervened to save a besieged vessel. All five earlier incidents have involved armed pirates who, in at least two cases, took crews hostage. In March, the US advised western shipping firms of possible speedboat-launched terrorist attacks on vessels in the Indian Ocean off the coast of east Africa, including Somali waters. AFP Lovely. Barbery Pirates anyone? Wonder what ideology these thugs subscribe to? |
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