Saturday, May 02, 2009
VICTORIA (Reuters) - A French naval patrol seized three Somali pirates in Seychelles' waters on Saturday and handed them over to the coastguard, the islands' president's office said.
Sea gangs armed with rocket launchers and sophisticated navigation equipment have captured a string of vessels off the Horn of Africa.
"French forces have captured three pirates within Seychelles Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) today," said presidential spokesperson Srdjana Janosevic.
"They were formally arrested by officers on board the Seychelles coastguard vessel Andromache."
The pirates, who were tracked down on the boundary of Somali and Seychelles waters, will arrive in the archipelago's capital, Victoria, on Sunday morning.
Saturday's operation followed the arrest of nine pirates believed to have attacked the Italian cruise-liner MSC Melody which was carrying 1,500 passengers and crew.
Those pirates were arrested within the Seychelles EEZ early this week.
The Seychelles archipelago, with a population of just 87,000, covers more than 1.3 million square km (500,000 square miles) of the western Indian Ocean although total land area is only 445 square km.
Source: Reuters, May 2 , 2009
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Maxaa ka rabtaa nimanka badooda difaacanaya oo daba socda wixii horey looga dhacay.
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Wax badan ha sugin. Mar aan fogeyn waa lagu kala tegin, Sheikhuna weesadiisa iyo masllahiisuu iska qaadan. Markay isdhameeyaan masaakintana, iyagaa iscuni. Ka dib cid kale ayaa dalkan ka faa'iidaysan. Soomaaliland waa hore ayay fahantey sheekada meesha ka socota..
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Waxu damac dheeraa, badda, diinta, budhcad, bililiqo. Kuwaan ummaddayna ma ahan, waxbo ma deeqo, xoolo badda iska maraayaa aa amaan ka la', war maxaa idin deeqa, 18 sano arlada waa nagu kadeeddeen, sumcaddii naga disheen, caalimka magaca dadka ka disheen. War Somaliland, go'a, waa idiin garaabeenaa kuwaan ummad ma ahan, halagu kala tago meeshaan, hala kala googooyo, shariifow soco adiga Liibiya iska tag haku daalin magaca waa kuu yeerey, kugu filan, waakaas inna Yeeyba waa ka daaley, Siyaad Barroow Allow qabrigaa wasiciyo, wax aan loo talin karin, tashan karin, taagne loo haayn, Laa xawlah walaa quwat ilaa biLaahi. War ma Itoobiyaan baa baddane ladinku sheegey? Filinkiin dheeraa, dhamaadbo maleh. Oo badda Soomaaliya kaliya ma daafaceysaan, badihii kalena waa iska xilsaarteen oo waa u dhimaneysaan? Oo hadhaw idinka yaa naga kiin ilaalinaayo? Filin!
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