Ten Pakistani sailors held hostage by Somali pirates aboard the MT Honour 25 for 57 days have released a video plea for urgent government intervention due to severe food and water shortages and illness. Negotiations remain stalled, with pirates initially demanding $10 million, later reduced to $4 million, as piracy resurges off Somalia's coast.
A chilling voice note from her husband was all the warning Indonesian housewife Shanty Shanaya received of his impending kidnapping in some of the world’s most treacherous waters. “I’m about to be attacked,” her 33-year-old husband, Captain Ashari Samadikun, said in the April 21 voice note threaded with fear as a group he assumed to be pirates approached. He was captaining the Palau-flagged MT Honour 25 tanker, which was carrying fuel from Oman to Somalia – a route once notorious for pirates who...
Somali pirates have hijacked the MT Eureka oil tanker in the Gulf of Aden near the port of Qana, marking the second tanker hijacking in the region within 10 days. The pirates departed from near Qandala in Puntland and overran the Togo-flagged vessel at 5:00 AM local time. The incident follows the April 22 hijacking of Honor 25 and comes amid a surge in Somali piracy since late 2023, when Houthi attacks forced international navies to redirect resources.
