Somalia's chaos is just across the Gulf of Aden from Yemen.
Somalia drapes over the tip of east Africa and into the Gulf of Aden, one of the world's busiest shipping lanes.
After a spike in pirate attacks in the Gulf of Aden in the fall, 18 countries contributed warships to an Armada to police the region.
In September, a Danish warship captured 10 men suspected of being pirates cruising around the Gulf of Aden with rocket-propelled grenades and a long ladder.
A former British protectorate of eastern Africa on the Gulf of Aden. It has been part of Somaliland since 9 '0.
Since January, at least 91 ships have been hijacked in the Gulf of Aden, a 1 million-square-mile waterway between Somalia and Yemen.
The shipping lanes in the Gulf of Aden, to Somalia's north, and the Indian Ocean, to the east of the lawless country, are among the busiest in the world.
capital and largest city and chief port of Yemen; located on the Gulf of Aden; its strategic location have made it a major trading center of S Arabia since ancient times.
UNHCR reports at least 52 Somalis died when the boat smuggling them across the Gulf of Aden to Yemen broke down, leaving them adrift with no food or water for 18 days.
The Chinese naval task force arrived in the Gulf of Aden and waters off Somalia Tuesday.
Take Boosaaso, once a thriving port town on the Gulf of Aden.
According to the scheme, the first fleet will officially depart from the Gulf of Aden after the joint convoy for the second time.
The deployment in the Gulf of Aden, from this month, is rare for the navy, which has hitherto kept much closer to shore.
Vessels have been sent by China to the Gulf of Aden and the waters off the Somali coast for escort missions in recent years.
The warships patrolling the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean are doing so under the legal framework of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and Security Council resolutions.
Some ships have begun taking the long route, around Africa's Cape of Good Hope (cost: up to $500, 000 a sail), to avoid the Gulf of Aden, off Somalia.
WHEN pirates attacked the MV Kition, a Greek tanker, late at night in the Gulf of Aden on May 1st, a Portuguese helicopter scared off the assailants and tracked their skiff to its “mother ship”.
Aerial support has been used to improve information and security in the Gulf of Aden.
The Red Sea is supersaturated in both calcite and aragonite and the degrees of saturation are higher than found in the Gulf of Aden.
Just about every week now, we also hear about Africans dying in the Gulf of Aden, Africans fleeing the Horn of Africa, particularly Somalia.
For years, the death toll has been mounting among Somalis and Ethiopians crossing the Gulf of Aden in rickety smugglers boats.
Followed by the West Africa, the Indian Ocean, the Bay of Bengal coast, and the Red Sea into the Indian Ocean along the Gulf of Aden near Somalia's territorial waters.
Yemen, on the opposite shore of the Gulf of Aden from Somalia, is equally burdened.
The Italian-flagged tugboat Buccaneer was hijacked in the Gulf of Aden on April 11.
China first launched the anti-piracy patrols in December 2008, joining an international flotilla aiming to protect shipping in the Gulf of Aden.
The pirates are also sprinkled across thousands of square miles of water, from the Gulf of Aden, at the narrow doorway to the Red Sea, to the Kenyan border along the Indian Ocean.
The nature of relevant facilities is clear, which is to provide logistical support to Chinese fleets performing escort duties in the Gulf of Aden and the waters off the Somali coast.
China also engages in naval escort missions in the Gulf of Aden and waters off Somalia.
A surge in pirate attacks in the Gulf of Aden, between Somalia and Yemen, prompted many countries to send naval forces to the area.
Not physically, by toppling across the Gulf of Aden that separates the countries, though some may imagine that the influx of 100,000-plus destitute Somali refugees may shift its centre of gravity.
This week the Indian Navy destroyed a heavily armed "mother ship" in the Gulf of Aden.
Today, the deteriorating security situation in the seas off war-torn Somalia and the Gulf of Aden (and in the increasingly volatile Gulf of Guinea) are at the heart of the problem.
Pirates have launched more than 100 attacks this year in the Gulf of Aden, one of the world's busiest shipping lanes, and are currently holding about a dozen vessels.
Just hours before the Security Council adopted the new resolution, an Indonesian tugboat and a Turkish cargo ship were hijacked in the Gulf of Aden.
He says tens of thousands flee across the Gulf of Aden seeking a better life.
The northern coastline of Somalia lies to the south of the Gulf of Aden, a key transit zone for ships passing to and from the Red Sea and the increasingly active port of Djibouti.
China took a big step in this direction late last year by participating in a multinational anti-piracy campaign in the Gulf of Aden.
Somali pirates hijacked the St Vincent and Grenadines-flagged sugar cargo vessel and its crew of 24 Thursday in the Gulf of Aden, the European Union naval force said.
The 18 small patrol boats in the program will offer armed escorts through the Gulf of Aden, and reduce overall insurance costs for ships using the service.
Their effect may be merely to shift the problem from the Gulf of Aden to the Indian Ocean.
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