Pirates released a Thai-flagged fishing vessel Sunday after a ransom was paid, a European Union anti-piracy force said. It did not say how much money was handed over.
The son of Togo’s late dictator has won re-election, extending the family’s four-decade rule in the west African nation.
Pirates have hijacked a Norwegian tanker off the coast of Madagascar and are steering the ship toward Somalia, the ship’s owner said.
Twenty-eight suspected pirates were taken into custody Friday by the European Union Naval Force after a handful of failed attacks on fishing vessels in the Indian Ocean, the EU mission said.
The European Union’s anti-piracy mission destroyed a pirate ship and a skiff in the Indian Ocean on Friday and took nearly a dozen suspected pirates into custody, the mission said.
Heavy rain, hilly terrain and inadequate equipment slowed efforts to recover hundreds of people feared killed by a massive landslide in eastern Uganda, officials said Thursday.
On certain nights in Minnesota’s Twin Cities, a turn of the radio dial can reveal Somali voices crackling over the radio waves.
Pirates have hijacked a tanker that sailed under a Saudi flag, authorities said Wednesday.
At least 106 bodies had been recovered Tuesday after massive landslides wiped out several villages around Mount Elgon on the Uganda-Kenya border, an army spokesman and local aid officials said.
The widow of former Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana, whose assassination sparked the 1994 genocide, was arrested Tuesday in Paris on a Rwandan warrant, French and Rwandan officials said.
