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• Somali kidnappers release 2 foreign journalists
British reporter Colin Freeman of The Sunday Telegraph, right, and Spanish freelance photographer Jose Cendon, sit Sunday in their hotel room in the semiautonomous region of Puntland in northern Somalia. MOGADISHU, Somalia - Two foreign journalists ...
• U.N.: Somali pirates hurting homeland
He added that piracy has even hurt Somalia's once stable semiautonomous northern region of Puntland, whose currency has lost almost 80 percent of its value in the past year. Much of the piracy is happening off Puntland's coast. The number of Somalis ...
• Somali pirates turn villages into boomtowns
The pirates operate mostly from the semiautonomous Puntland region, where local lawmakers have been accused of helping the pirates and taking a cut of the ransoms. For the most part, however, the regional officials say they have no power to stop piracy
• Pirates hijack Danish-owned ship off Somalia - Africa ...
Abdulahi Sa'id Awyusuf, chief of the coastal village of Eyl in northeast Somalia's semiautonomous Puntland region, said pirates holding the ship off his village contacted Eyl ...
• 5 Somalis killed in overnight attack - Africa - msnbc.com
In a separate incident, authorities in the semiautonomous region of Puntland said a Spanish aid worker employed by the Danish Refugee Council was being deported for facilitating ...