Seafarers Assistance Programme officials

An official from the German Foreign Ministry could not immediately confirm the ship's capture. Andrew Mwangura of the Mombasa, Kenya-based East African Seafarers' Assistance Program, a group that monitors pirate activity off the African coast, said the ship has 17 crew members but could not give their ...

A crew of American sailors turned the tables on Somali pirates today who hijacked their ship after a high seas chase - and then were overpowered by the U.S. crew. The ship is crewed by 20 Americans under the command of Capt. Richard Phillips of Underhill, Vt. Also on board is Capt. Capt. Shane Murphy ...

The crew was in contact with the pirates, but officials were waiting to determine how to proceed with the negotiations at daybreak. The pirate mother ship also is in the vicinity, a defense official said. A crew member told CNN this afternoon that Capt. Richard Phillips was on the ship's lifeboat with ...

However, pirates and Somali officials cite the root cause of the highly organized and lucrative business as a result of illegal fishing made possible by years ... waters at any one time engaged in a $90 million a year business, mainly in tuna, the Kenya-based Seafarers Assistance Program reported in 2006.

Somali pirates have hijacked a Saudi Arabian-owned oil tanker, the largest vessel ever seized, loaded with crude and carrying 25 crew members off the Kenyan coast, a regional maritime official said on Monday.

Some US officials fear the cargo aboard the MV Faina, which was seized by pirates Thursday, could end up in the hands of Al Qaeda-linked militants in Somalia if the pirates are allowed to escape. Somalia is seen as a key battleground in the war on terrorism in the region, which includes the Gulf of Aden, ...

Andrew Mwangura, of the Seafarers' Assistance Program, who monitors piracy from the Kenyan port of Mombasa, says cash raised from ransoms is being ... A lot of that is invested in businesses in the United Arab Emirates and Kenya, but a lot is also funding the fighters on both sides – government officials, ...

A second U.S. Navy destroyer was searching waters off Somalia for pirates who hijacked a Japanese-owned ship, military officials said. Over the ... Golden Nori off the Socotra archipelago near the Horn of Africa, said Andrew Mwangura, a spokesman for the Kenyan-based Seafarers' Assistance Program.

On Saturday, pirates who took over a Taiwanese fishing boat off Somalia killed one of its crew, Kenyan maritime officials reported, according to Reuters. ... crew member if the ship owner doesn't pay," Andrew Mwangura, director of the Kenyan-based East African Seafarers Assistance Program, told Reuters.