We all love to go on holiday, but nobody really considers where the most dangerous places to go on holiday in the world are. We are going to skip Iran, Afghanistan and Iraq, purely because they are in a warzone! Not really considered a destination to go on holiday, even for the maddest of people in the world.
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Somali Piracy: We Need To Attack The Roots Of The Problem
Ban Ki-moon, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, calls for help in fighting poverty and instability in Somalia
"To end piracy in Somalia, we need to find and address the real causes of the problem" have said today Ban Ki-Moon and European Commission President Jose Manuel Durao Barroso during the Donor Conference for Somalia that started today in Brussels.
Both leaders rely on fundraising to go to the roots of piracy: poverty and political instability.
"If we only treat the symptoms but not the root causes, the decline of the state and poverty, we will fail," said Barroso at a press conference with Ban Ki-Moon minutes before starting the Donor Conference for Somalia.
During the opening of the meeting, attended by 43 nations, Barroso stressed that the immediate purpose today is to raise funds for the security sector and the African Union mission in Somalia for the next twelve months.
Read more »Warship Nears Pirates Holding U.S. Captain
NAIROBI/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. navy destroyer reached waters off Somalia on Thursday to help free an American ship captain taken hostage by pirates in the first seizure of U.S. citizens by the increasingly bold sea gangs.
Gunmen briefly hijacked the 17,000-tonne Maersk Alabama freighter on Wednesday, but the 20 American crew retook control after a confrontation far out in the Indian Ocean where the pirates have captured another five vessels in a week.
Second mate Ken Quinn told CNN the pirates were holding the captain on the ship's lifeboat, and that the crew were trying to negotiate his release.
The Danish-owned freighter's operator, Maersk Line Ltd, said the U.S. Navy warship Bainbridge arrived on the scene before dawn on Thursday.
CNN said the lifeboat, with the captain and four pirates aboard, was within sight of the Alabama. But a regional maritime official said that might have changed.
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