Fri 05 Sep 2008
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Top UN envoy speaks out against piracy off Somali coast
The top United Nations envoy to Somalia today said that he is extremely alarmed by the rise in piracy off the Horn of Africa nation’s coast and deplored the destabilizing effects of the attacks in the region.
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