Showing posts with label UN. Show all posts
Showing posts with label UN. Show all posts
Friday, September 21, 2012

A Good Read on Somali Pirates: "Hijacked: How the U.N. saved the Somali pirates from the brink of extinction." - By Robert Young Pelton

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How an effort to do what virtually everyone agrees needs to be done - defeat the Somali pirate on the land side - was thwarted by a UN pro...
Saturday, September 10, 2011

Shipping Entities Want UN Armed Guards on Merchant Ships in Pirate Zones

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According to a report in Tanker Operator : The Round Table of international shipping associations has called for the establishment of a Uni...
Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Somali Pirates: UN Report Says Somali Pirates Growing Menace

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Entire report here : The menace of piracy off the coast of Somalia was outpacing international efforts to stem it, B. Lynn Pascoe, Under-Se...
Sunday, September 05, 2010

Somali Pirates: The UN offers Seven Options

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Reported by the AP as UN chief offers anti-piracy options : U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon offered the Security Council seven options ...
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Wednesday, January 06, 2010

Somalia: Islamist group condemns WFP suspension of operations in Somalia

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Almost as anticipated here , the Somali Shabaab thugs blame everyone but themselves for the World Food Program withdrawal of food distributi...

Somali Pirates: Turkey calls for UN-sponsored trials of captured pirates

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"Somali pirates should be tried under watch of UN"- Turkey says : Suspected pirates off the coast of Somalia should be prosecuted ...
Tuesday, January 05, 2010

Somalia: Failed State Loses World Food Program Due to Thuggery

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Reported as WFP suspends operations in much of southern Somalia : The U.N.'s World Food Programme (WFP) has suspended its work in much o...
Sunday, June 28, 2009

Somali Pirates: EU Safely Escorts Food Ship but ...

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Press release from here : Successfull escort by German Navy frigate Muqdisho, Somalia, 26th of June 2009 14.000 tons of food have been deliv...
Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Update: That "Iranian" Arms Ship

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Remember that ship alleged to be carrying Iranian arms to Gaza? See here for a refresher. The government of Cyprus, having availed itself o...
Sunday, February 01, 2009

More on that "Iranian" Arms Ship

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For background, see here . Latest report from here : Foreign Minister Markos Kyprianou has said that the government is still investigating w...
Saturday, January 31, 2009

Anti-Piracy Regional Agreement for Gulf of Aden and East Africa

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Reported at Maritime Global Net : A HIGH-level meeting of 17 States from the Western Indian Ocean, Gulf of Aden and Red Sea areas, convened ...
Wednesday, January 21, 2009

UN Office on Drugs and Crime Offers Up "Ship Riders" Concept to Aid in Pirate Fight

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The UN has a lot of agencies and I have been critical of many of them. However, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has an excellent id...
Thursday, December 18, 2008

UN Chief Says Somalia "Not Ready" for UN Peacekeepers

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Could this be the least surprising story of the week? - "UN Chief Says Time Not Ripe for Somalia Peacekeeping Operation" : U.N. Se...
Monday, December 15, 2008

Somali Pirates: Shore fight needs more intel

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Ignore the stupid headline - Gates says U.S. lacks intelligence to fight Somalia pirates - and concentrate on the message: The United State...
Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Somali Pirates: U.S. wants UN approval to go after pirates ashore in Somalia

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This is important news in the fight against Somali pirates, as U.S. Asking UN to Back Pursuit of Pirates on Somali Territory : The U.S. is ...
Friday, November 28, 2008

Somali Pirate Maps

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Someone at the UN Satellite office went a lot of trouble to produce the pretty picture shown below (click on it to make it bigger). It comes...
Friday, November 14, 2008

Somali Pirates: India wants UN leadership of anti-pirate patrols after Indian ship denied immediate protection

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Global politics rears its head in the battle against Somali pirates now that India wants UN force off Somalia after its ship is refused prot...
Friday, September 26, 2008

Somalia: Canadian life savers

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Reported by ReliefWeb : WFP today welcomed the decision by Canada to extend its naval mission protecting ships carrying humanitarian aid to ...
Saturday, July 19, 2008

Somalia: Death by Piracy

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In Somalia about 1/2 the population depends on getting food from outside sources, especially the World Food Program. Now, not only are gangs...
Saturday, July 05, 2008

Somalia: Pirates Don't Care About UN

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Or, as headline says, "Somalia: Pirates in Total Defiance of the UN" : It is barely two weeks after the United Nations Security C...