| In fond memory of Pappy, who started tracking Somali pirates for us years ago. |
[Garowe] Another piracy incident has been reported in Somalia, multiple sources confirmed, just as the country struggles to bring order and stability to the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea coastlines, which are now prone to such attacks.Eyewitnesses said a merchant's vessel has reported a suspicious approach by a blue-hulled small boat with several gunnies some 170 kilometers northwest of Bosaso, within Puntland
...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion...
state. Most cases of piracy are reported around the Puntland coastline.