Somalia: Puntland Gov Calls For a New Approach After NATO Releases 9 Pirates

Ministry of Maritime Transport, Ports and Counter-PiracyPuntland State of SomaliaGarowe

PRESS RELEASE08 January 2012Somalia: Puntland Gov Calls For a New Approach After NATO Releases 9 PiratesA group of Somali pirates hijacked a trading dhow on 2 January 2012 moments after the dhow left the Port of Bossaso in Puntland State of Somalia.The dhow, Al-Safina Al-Salam, was transporting 3,620 heads of livestock to Salalah Port in the Sultanate of Oman, when it was hijacked by Somali pirates some

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