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Throughout much of the 20th century, the Jubaland region in present-day southern Somalia was part of the then british administered kenya Jubaland was subsequently ceded without the consultation or approval of the kenyan people directly or their representatives to Italy in 1924–25, as a reward for the Italians having joined the Allies in World War I,[8] and had a brief existence as the ...
As ratified members of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), Kenya and Somalia are under the obligation to delimit their maritime boundaries by agreement based on international law for achieving a fair solution, in accordance with the article 83 (1). [15] Both countries have overlapping claims.
On 2 January 2006, U.S. Marines operating out of Lamu, Kenya, were said to be assisting Kenyan forces patrolling the border with Somalia with the interception of Islamists. [45] On 8 January it was reported that an AC-130 gunship belonging to the United States military had attacked suspected al-Qaeda operatives in southern Somalia.
Kenya has rejected a top U.N. court ruling that decided mostly in favour of Somalia in a maritime row, saying it was profoundly concerned by the boundary it set in a part of the Indian Ocean ...
(Reuters) -Twenty armed people have boarded a cargo ship off the coast of Somalia and have taken control of it, a maritime security firm said on Tuesday. The vessel is the latest to be targeted ...
2005-10-03. US$ 50,000. MV Semlow, carrying UN food supplies for tsunami victims, was seized by pirates en route from Mombasa, Kenya to Bosasso, Somalia. They held the ship for 100 days until a Somali business man convinced them to leave without payment.
Operation Atalanta, formally European Union Naval Force (EU NAVFOR) Somalia, is an ongoing counter-piracy military operation at sea off the Horn of Africa and in the Western Indian Ocean, that is the first naval operation conducted by the European Union (EU), in support of United Nations resolutions 1814, 1816, 1838, and 1846 adopted in 2008 by the United Nations Security Council.
Culture of Somalia. Maritime history of Somalia refers to the seafaring tradition of the Somali people. [1] It includes various stages of Somali navigational technology, shipbuilding and design, as well as the history of the Somali port cities. It also covers the historical sea routes taken by Somali sailors which sustained the commercial ...