Security officers in Lamu are detaining three foreign boats that were found to have illegally crossed into Kenyan territorial waters. One of the vessels is from Yemen while the other two are from Somalia.
Lamu County Commissioner Joseph Kanyiri confirmed to the Nation on Friday that the vessels are currently being held in Lamu. He said the crew are being questioned by police and would be arraigned in court.
Mr Kanyiri said Kenya Navy officers and Marine Police patrolling the Indian Ocean detained the boats after the crew failed to produce legal documents showing they were allowed to conduct any business in Kenyan waters. Mr Kanyiri also said the vessels were not properly registered as per the Maritime Authority regulations.
“The captains failed to justify what they were doing in Kenyan territory,” he said.
Smuggling either qat or ammo is my guess...
Earlier this week, Mr Kanyiri ordered boat operators in Lamu to conduct their smuggling business between 5am and 11pm. He also directed them to register their boats with the Kenya Ports Authority.
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan met the leader of Palestinian group Hamas, Khaled Mashal, in Istanbul on June 24, state-run Anadolu Agency reported. Erdoğan and Mashal discussed how to resolve the disagreements among Palestinians as well as Turkish humanitarian assistance, the report said, citing an unnamed source from the Turkish Presidency.
The disagreements will be resolved with the use of Turkish humanitarian ammunition...
The Turkish leader emphasized during the meeting that Turkey was keen on easing the distress of Palestinians, the source, who was not named due to restrictions on speaking with the media, told Anadolu Agency.
The meeting came at a time Turkey and Israel are expected to announce a deal to normalize their ties.
Only if the Israelis concede an end to the embargo on Gaza, which they won't do...
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said on June 22 that Turkey’s ties with Hamas, considered a terrorist group by Israel, was not a subject in the talks.
“Our discussions with Hamas were never a secret from the very beginning. Suggestions we have made to Hamas leaders are also not a secret. On one side, we are trying to make a contribution to the Middle East peace process. We know that we haven’t been able to make this contribution adequately because our relations with Israel went off track. But everybody who has been paying attention to the Middle East issue, all of the countries and Israel, today acknowledge that there can be no permanent peace or solution without Hamas,” Çavuşoğlu said.
There can also be no permanent peace with Hamas, so there will be no peace...
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
