Somali pirates are back again, around ten. years after they created chaos in international shipping.The small commercial ship was captured by an gang near the Eyl district on the coast of Puntland
...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion...
, according to the British Maritime Trade Agency, which quoted the officials of the company that owns the ship.
The agency did not provide any further details about the identity of the kidnappers but said that an investigation is underway.
The European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
Navy said that a merchant ship carrying the flag of Malta was hijacked in the Gulf of Adam last week and headed for the same area off the coast of Somalia.
The ship Ruen had 18 crew members on board when it was hijacked near Socotra Island in Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
, which is about 240 km from Somalia.
One of the crew members was evacuated to an Indian Navy vessel for medical treatment, the EU Navy said.
There has been an increase in the kidnapping of Somali pirates, as the European Union forces said that the hijackers of the Ruen ship’s demands are still unknown.
It is the first hijacking that took place on the shores of Somalia since 2017, and it is coming at a time when the Iran's Houthi sock puppets
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is
God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the JewsThey like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him...
s in Yemen are also hijacking fat merchantmen passing through the Red Sea.