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Swedish Soldiers To Fend Off Pirates Near Somalia
[RADIOSHABELLE] Thirty-four Swedish soldiers are heading to east Africa as part of international efforts to prevent attacks from  Somali pirates.The soldiers, from Gothenburg, will be stationed off the coast of Somalia as part of Sweden’s fifth mission to the region. Two small Swedish combined transport and war ships will be on board the Dutch HNLMS Rotterdam, an amphibious warfare ship of the Royal Netherlands Navy. It is the second time Sweden’s part of the mission is carried out together with Dutch troops "In the first place we are there to escort the World Food Programme’s aid deliveries with supplies to Somalia. But we also have the mandate to intervene and stop pirate attacks and armed robberies at sea," Major Thomas Olsson, head of the Swedish troops in Somalia, told the TT news agency. Posted by: Fred 2017-08-18 |
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