Somali pirates move north towards the Red Sea:(ISAF reaffirms warning)



8:43 PM Thu 1 Jul 2010 GMT
'Bab el Mandeb - used to be past the ’pirate zone’' .
Once cruising sailors had sailed the Gulf of Aden and reached the vicinity of the Strait of Bab el Mandeb, in reach of Red Sea waters, they would sigh with relief, as this was the sure signal that they had passed the dangerous pirate zone... but no more. Yemeni Coast Guard police, in a statement distributed to the Media Centre of the Ministry of Interior, said that the pirates of Somalia have turned their activities to the area of the Strait of Bab al-Mandab due to poor marine conditions in the Gulf of Aden. The Coast Guard said to the ...


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