blinkx

  • UN backs piracy land pursuit

  • 00:01:27
  • Reuters
    • Browse

UN backs piracy land pursuit

The resolution gives those states already involved in fighting piracy off the Somali coast a one-year mandate to act against the buccaneers inside the country. The move came as pirates hijacked four more vessels in the Gulf of Aden. Increasingly emboldened pirates have attacked more than 100 ships this year, earning gunmen millions of dollars in ransom. The seizures have prompted some of the world's biggest shipping firms to switch routes from the Suez Canal and send cargo vessels around southern Africa instead -- a move which could push up the cost of commodities and manufactured goods.

Reuters | December 17, 2008Watch more videos from Reuters

Tags:. .suez. .buccaneers. .aden. .piracy. .ransom











Act   Aden   Africa   Already   Attacked   Biggest   Buccaneers   Came   Canal   Cargo   Coast   Commodities   Cost   Dollars   Earning   Firms   Four   Gulf   Gunmen   Hijacked   Increasingly   Inside   Instead   Involved   Land   Mandate   Manufactured   Millions   Oneyear   Piracy   Pirates   Prompted   Pursuit   Push   Ransom   Resolution   Routes   Seizures   Send   Shipping   Ships   Somali   Southern   Suez   Switch   Un   Vessels