In December 2023, a month after the Iran-backed Houthi rebels started striking merchant ships, Somali pirates hijacked MV Ruen, a Maltese-flagged cargo ship from the Indian Ocean. That was the ...

Many experts believe that Somali pirates no longer pose a threat ... Raj Mohabeer of the Indian Ocean Commission, an intergovernmental organization that links the island nations of the ...

The East African Rift, stretching from Mozambique to the Red Sea, sets the stage for a new ocean. The African and Somali plates diverge at 0.8 cm annually, forming a 60-km-long rift in Ethiopia ...

Pirates have commandeered a Taiwanese-flagged fishing boat off the coast of Africa, the European Union's Naval Force in ...

“This framework agreement will determine the type of port that will be made available, the specific area on the Indian Ocean, and the total cost of the project,” he added. His comments came after ...

MOGADISHU, March 22 (Xinhua) -- Somali pirates have released a Yemeni-flagged fishing dhow that was seized on March 16 in the pirate-infested waters off the coast of Somalia, the European Union Naval ...