Donnerstag, 23. Februar 2012

Stop the pirates, help the Horn of Africa

By Catherine Ashton
The Gulf of Aden is gradually being made safer for ships. We now need a more comprehensive approach to security.

Last September, a French yacht in the Gulf of Aden sent out a distress signal: it was being boarded by Somali pirates. A German frigate picked up the message, located the yacht, the ‘Tribal Kat', via a US communications system and alerted a Spanish ship, which tracked down and boarded the pirate skiff and liberated one of the yacht's two crew

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