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• Somalia: Somali pirate attacks up, says maritime watchdog
  2008-10-25 07:54:08 - (SomaliNet) A maritime watchdog said on Thursday that Somali pirates were now responsible for nearly a third of all reported attacks on ships, often taking hostages and using high levels of violence.
  
• Somalia: French navy arrests 8 suspected pirates
  2008-10-25 07:51:59 - (SomaliNet) Regional officials said on Thursday that the French navy has arrested eight suspected pirates and handed them over to authorities in the breakaway Somali region of Puntland. Puntland
  
• Somalia: Russia advises Somali government on piracy
  2008-10-25 07:49:47 - (SomaliNet)Russia, which sent a warship to Somalia\'s coast to combat pirates, asked Somalia on Thursday for carte blanche to use force in its territorial waters. Moscow sent the frigate Neustras
  
• Somalia: Fighting claims 4 lives in capital Mogadishu
  2008-10-25 07:46:59 - (SomaliNet) Intense fighting between Somalia’s Abyssinian government soldiers and their archrivals the insurgents has on Wednesday morning commenced at Hiliwa district in the Somali capital Mogadishu.
  
• Somalia: Somali gov’t must tackle rampant piracy off Somalia
  2008-10-25 07:44:31 - (SomaliNet) The Somali government is looking into the possibility of sending the Maritime Self-Defense Force there in an effort to cope with rampant pirate attacks in the waters off the Somali coast.
  
• Somalia: NATO to combat piracy off coast of Somalia in next few days
  2008-10-25 07:41:34 - (SomaliNet) An alliance spokesman said Wednesday that NATO warships will start to combat piracy off the coast of Somalia in the next few days and escort aid ships to the largely lawless Horn of Africa
  
• Somalia: UNICEF & UNDP 104 Children Released From Prison in Somaliland
  2008-10-24 08:11:50 - <#unicef_sm.gif#>104 children aged 15–18 have been released from eight prisons in Somaliland (Northwest Somalia). This event follows the enactment of the new Juvenile Justice Law for Somaliland in April 2008.
  
• Somalia: Armed pirates seize Indian vessel with 13 crew near Somalia
  2008-10-21 08:28:53 - (SomaliNet) A maritime official said Tuesday that armed pirates in speedboats have hijacked an Indian dhow with 13 crew members off the northern coast of Somalia. The cargo-laden vessel was en ro
  
• Somalia: Islamist rebels killed UN employee- regional official
  2008-10-20 02:47:52 - (SomaliNet) In the latest assassination targeting aid workers, a regional official in Somalia accused Islamist rebels on Monday of killing a U.N. employee. On Sunday, unidentified gunmen shot dea
  
• Somalia: UNICEF staff shot dead in southern Somalia
  2008-10-20 01:33:05 - (SomaliNet) In the second deadly attack on a United Nations employee in the last few days, a UN children\'s agency aid worker was shot dead in southern Somalia at the weekend, a local UN official and w
  

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