An African Union convoy was struck by a road-side bomb in the Somali capital of Mogadishu [May 16], killing an unknown number of Ugandan peacekeepers. [AlJazeera [2], May 16] A pair of aid workers—a Kenyan and a Briton—remain in the custody of their kidnappers in northern Somalia. The kidnappers are demanding "minor" political concessions from the authorities of Puntland, the semi-autonomous and relatively stable northern region of the country. [Reuters [3], May 15] Two South Korean fishing boats have been seized by pirates off Somalia's increasingly unprotected coast. [BBC [4], May 16]
From Madrid11.net Security Briefs [5], May 16
See our last posts on Somalia [6], Puntland [7] and piracy [8].
