The situation off the coast of Somalia is foremost in our minds at the moment.
The waters off the coast of Somalia are considered some of the world's most dangerous.
More than 70 shipping vessels have been attacked off the coast of Somalia in the past year.
He said the vessel was then about a mile off the coast of Somalia, and the nearest town was Ubdu.
These included Operation Atalanta - combating piracy off the coast of Somalia, and the peacekeeping work in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo.
We are safeguarding our vital sea lanes off the coast of Somalia.
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The pirates hijacked the ship off the coast of Somalia September 25.
Navy officials say about 12 to 15 coalition ships are patrolling in the Gulf of Aden and the off the coast of Somalia.
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"There will soon be NATO military vessels off the coast of Somalia, deterring piracy and escorting food ships, " NATO spokesman James Appathurai said Thursday.
The ship had eluded the pirates for more than three hours off the coast of Somalia before being boarded, Joe Murphy said his son reported.
In 2009, an Italian cruise ship with 1, 500 people aboard fended off a pirate attack in the Indian Ocean far off the coast of Somalia.
It is likely that piracy will continue to be a problem off the coast of Somalia as long as the violence and chaos continues on land.
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Both the United States and Kenya are concerned about the growing acts of piracy off the coast of Somalia and the instability caused in Somalia by extremist groups.
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Piracy has increased exponentially, especially off the coast of Somalia.
Guerrillas target oil company workers in Nigeria, pirates ransom cargo ship operators off the coast of Somalia and criminal gangs go after tech executives and their children in India.
The Sirius Star is believed now to be anchored somewhere off the coast of Somalia, near the pirate port of Eyl in the northern Puntland region of the country.
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Combined Maritime Forces, a U.S.-led naval coalition involving several nations, said there were five attempts to hijack ships off the coast of Somalia in just one day earlier this week.
In federal court in New York, prosecutors had portrayed Muse as a ringleader of the pirate gang who seized the Maersk Alabama some 450km (280 miles) off the coast of Somalia.
EU-NAVFOR, a task force backed by the European Union to protect ships off the coast of Somalia, notes that after detaining suspected pirates, they have no authority to prosecute them.
In recent years there has been a rise in the number of piracy attacks, especially off the coast of Somalia in the Gulf of Aden, one of the world's busiest shipping lanes.
Afweyne's announcement is, however, indicative of a trend that has become increasingly clear over the past year -- that piracy off the coast of Somalia is no longer as lucrative as it once was.
At least three of the SEALs had participated in the sniper operation off the coast of Somalia, in April, 2009, that freed Richard Phillips, the captain of the Maersk Alabama, and left three pirates dead.
The event will look at ways of dealing with piracy off the coast of Somalia, protecting ships in the Gulf of Aden, challenging extremist groups in Somalia and the risk of UK citizens being radicalised there.
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Mike Mullen, the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, recently asked the military to look at "what options and alternatives are available from a purely military perspective" to deal with piracy off the coast of Somalia, Capt.
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The area involved -- off the coast of Somalia and Kenya as well as the Gulf of Aden -- equals more than 1.1 million square miles, roughly four times the size of Texas, or the size of the Mediterranean and Red Sea combined.
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He described Union cooperation in Africa, including the deployment of two military operations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and one in Chad, as well as a naval operation off the coast of Somalia and assistance for the African Union operation and the Transitional Federal Government in the country.
The International Maritime Organization (IMO) marked its annual World Maritime Day celebration today with a collective call-to-action to the United Nations, world governments, military forces and even shipowners and crews reminding them that they all play an integral role in helping rid the world of modern-day piracy on the high seas, especially off the coast of Somalia and Indian Ocean.
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Foreign navies have begun patrolling the Gulf of Aden to rein in the pirate gangs off the coast of northern Somalia, but they have had only limited success.
But normally it means delivering a huge wodge of cash by sea to the hijackers, who will have anchored off the coast of northern Somalia.
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