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• Somali pirates challenge superpowers
... personnel on the upper deck aboard the Belize-flagged Ukrainian cargo MV Faina this week off Somalia's Indian Ocean coast as seen from a US Navy ship. The ship was seized by Somali pirates on Sept. 25 in the Indian Ocean on its way to the Kenyan ...
• U.S. warships circle ship off Somalia
Meanwhile, activists condemned Kenya’s arrest of a Kenyan maritime official on Wednesday night who had been the first to tip off media that the weapons aboard the ship hijacked nine days ago were heading to southern Sudan. His account was later ...
• Africans wary of new U.S. command
Africans believe Africom is aimed at promoting America's interests, not Africa's," said Wafula Okumu, a Kenyan analyst at South Africa's Institute for Security Studies. Most Africans don't trust their own militaries, which in places like Congo have ...
• Pirates: Holiday celebrated on hijacked ship
A Kenyan maritime official cited an unconfirmed report that three of the pirates were killed Monday night in a dispute over whether to surrender. Speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk on the record, a U.S. official ...
• Bill Clinton uses diplomatic skills on Africa trip
Barack Obama, D-Ill., whose father was Kenyan and who was met with great excitement when he traveled through Africa last year. Did Bill Clinton wish for a “Clinton-Obama, Obama-Clinton ticket?” “It would be foolish for Hillary, or, frankly, for ...