[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Three maiden of tender yearss have reportedly been arrested by Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... policewomen for the crime of home escape, according to local Taliban ...Arabic for students... authorities in the western Afghan province of Herat.
These three girls were reportedly taken into custody from the 6th district of Herat city, the bustling provincial capital, according to the Taliban government’s office of the chief of police in Herat.
The case concerning the three maiden of tender yearss has reportedly been brought before the appropriate judicial agencies and authorities in Herat for consideration.
The Herat police chief’s office, however, provided no further information regarding the reasons why the three girls left their homes.
A boy and a girl from the fifth district of Kunduz province in northern Afghanistan were earlier arrested by Taliban security officers on grounds of running away from home.
Afghan women have been subjected to forced marriages and domestic violence, and Human Rights Watch reports that up to 70% of cases of "running away" from home are related to fleeing forced marriage or domestic violence.
Following the Taliban’s return to Afghanistan, various "draconian" edicts are issued, severely restricting women’s rights, including freedom of movement, as they are not permitted to travel without a male chaperone, a mahram.
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[Garowe] Following thorough cooperation between local actors and international partners, piracy is no longer a threat along Somalia's waters, the global shipping industry has said, adding that the efforts to keep attackers at bay have borne fruits.
Six international shipping organizations including the International Chamber of Shipping [ICS] said from the start of next year the Indian Ocean would no longer be considered high risk as there had been no attacks on merchant's vessels off Somalia since 2018.
"This announcement is a testament to nearly 15 years of dedicated collaboration to reduce the threat of piracy in the Indian Ocean," it said in a statement.
For decades, the coast of Somalia was deemed dangerous given endless attacks waged on shipping companies by al-Shabaab ...... the personification of Somali state failure... gunnies and at times local pirates who had cornered a militia. al-Shabaab mostly depended on piracy to finance her operations.
In 2009, in one of the most high-profile cases, later turned into the Hollywood film Captain Phillips, a US-flagged ship, the Maersk Alabama, was hijacked by Somali pirates. The crew was eventually rescued by the US Navy, The Financial Times reports.
John Stawpert, senior manager of environment and trade at ICS said removing Somalia’s designation as a high-risk area would probably reduce the number of private armed guards — who are often former servicemen — deployed on ships traveling through the region.
"It’s very strange to be standing here saying piracy is suppressed when we went through so many years of them being able to operate indiscriminately," he said.
Dimitris Maniatis, chief commercial officer at Seagull Maritime, a private maritime security firm, said that private guards together with naval deployments had helped to reduce piracy.
Somalia has a 3,333 km coastline and the absence of a robust security team including the Navy has often made it difficult to tackle pirates. For almost a decade, the pirates controlled Somalia's coastline, at times making other countries deploy security forces to international waters near the coastline.
The new government under the administration of Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has also pledged to work closely with stakeholders to completely vanquish pirates. The scale of activities waged by the pirates has, however, substantially reduced.
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I'll match our illegitimate cabinet against any other illegitimate cabinet with respect to incompetence. While Buttigieg is definitely our LVP, our line-up top to bottom is, manifestly, the worst executive power in the world. The Canadians are up and coming nincompoops, but their economy and population are sized at the AAA level, at most, so they don't get the opportunities to be a true pox on humanity.
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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.
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...... the personification of Somali state failure...
Somali pirates
