“The British couple being held hostage by pirates in Somalia believe they will be killed within days.
Paul Chandler, who was captured with his wife Rachel on October 23 last year while sailing from the Seychelles, said that the pirates had set a deadline of “three or four” days for a ransom to be paid.”
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Calm has returned to Harardere town in the north of the Somali country, just after bitter confrontation between pirates that caused casualties of deaths and injuries, witnesses and officials told Shabelle radio on Tuesday.
Residents said that the situation of the town was calm on Tuesday after more of the traditional elders and scholars of the region brought troops between the two rival sides to solve the tense between the Somali pirates who fought there as they disagreed a ransom payment that one of the jacked ships released.
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“At least 138 people died and 344 others were injured in the last two weeks’ fighting in central Somalia,” Ali Yasin Gedi, the vice chairman of the Elman human rights group, told Reuters.
“The recent fighting between Ahlu Sunna, and al Shabaab and Hizbul Islam on one side has also displaced 63,000 people from Galgadud and Hiiraan regions.”
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As most of you know or to some degree heard about, the drawer behind the Muhammad (pbuh) cartoons, Kurt Westergaard, was on the first of January attacked by a 28-year-old Somali Muslim. Equipped with an axe, he managed to break in to the house of the 74-year-old Dane. The Dane managed to get himself inside a safe room where he alerted the authorities. He was with his grandchild at the time, but only managed to get himself in the room and this is what he had to say about leaving the child:
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The 2010 Africa Cup of Nations, also known as the Orange Africa Cup of Nations for sponsorship reasons, is the 27th edition of the Africa Cup of Nations, the biennial football championship of Africa (CAF). It is being held in Angola, where it began on 10 January 2010 and will conclude on 31 January.
In the tournament, the hosts Angola were to be joined by 15 nations who successfully advanced from the qualification process that began in October 2007 and involved 53 African national teams. The withdrawal of Togo after a terrorist attack on their bus upon arriving for the tournament reduced the number of participating nations to 15, meaning Angola were joined by only 14 teams. A total of 29 games will be played.
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“Fierce fighting has broken out in two towns in southern and central Somalia among three Islamist groups vying for power in the country. With the U.N.-backed transitional government unable to exert any influence in most areas of the country, various Islamist groups and factions are trying to fill the power vacuum.
After two days of clashes, a military commander for the Sufi militia, Ahlu-Sunna Wal-Jamaa, says his forces have seized the town of Beledweyne in the Hiran region from Hizbul Islam rebels.”
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MALINDI, Kenya (AP) — People here have one thing to thank Somali pirates for: Better fishing.
In past years, illegal commercial trawlers parked off Somalia’s coast and scooped up the ocean’s contents. Now, fishermen on the northern coast of neighboring Kenya say, the trawlers are not coming because of pirates.
“There is a lot of fish now, there is plenty of fish. There is more fish than people can actually use because the international fishermen have been scared away by the pirates,” said Athman Seif, the director of the Malindi Marine Association.
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