Somalia increases its efforts to secure the release of six Egyptian crew members.

Video released of Egyptians held by pirates, as Somali officials prohibit ransom payment, move to cut off supplies to hijacked ship

Video footage of bound Egyptians pleading for their release sent to relatives on Monday underscores the perilous fate of the crewmembers on board an oil tanker seized by Somali pirates off the coast of the Horn of Africa country at the beginning of May. The footage, obtained by Mada Masr, was sent to personal phones of crewmembers’ families and shows three crewmen kneeling on the deck of the M/T Eureka, a diesel tanker owned by a UAE-based shipp…

Somalia increases its efforts to secure the release of six Egyptian crew members.

The Somali Federal Government has announced that it is intensifying its diplomatic efforts to secure the release of six Egyptian crew members who were abducted from the oil ship M/T Eureka. This information was disclosed by the Somali ambassador to Egypt, Ali Abdi Awaare. The statement was made after the ambassador met with Mohamed Karim Sherif, the Egyptian Assistant Foreign Minister for African Affairs, to discuss the situation of the Egyptian…