GenevaLunch » Seychelles http://genevalunch.com Community Newspaper Online Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:57:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Copyright © GenevaLunch 2010 editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) http://genevalunch.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg GenevaLunch http://genevalunch.com 144 144 Community Newspaper Online GenevaLunch GenevaLunch editor@genevalunch.com no no Kidnapped English couple to return home http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/11/15/kidnapped-english-couple-to-return-home/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/11/15/kidnapped-english-couple-to-return-home/#comments Mon, 15 Nov 2010 07:34:40 +0000 Sean Ecker http://genevalunch.com/?p=49883 GenevaLunch.com Rachel and Paul Chandler, a husband and wife team of sailors, are set to return home to Tunbridge Wells, Kent after being released by pirates in Somalia. “We’re fine, we’re rather skinny and bony but we’re fine,” Chandler said in Mogadishu 14 November. The couple were captured on their yacht in October 2009 off the [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/11/15/kidnapped-english-couple-to-return-home/feed/ 0 British sailing couple seized by Somali pirates http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/10/28/british-sailing-couple-seized-by-somali-pirates/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/10/28/british-sailing-couple-seized-by-somali-pirates/#comments Wed, 28 Oct 2009 06:41:43 +0000 Sean Ecker http://genevalunch.com/?p=30558 GenevaLunch.com A British couple from Tunbridge Wells, Kent, UK have been seized by pirates while sailing from the Seychelles to Tanzania. A spokesman for the pirates confirmed to a local New York Times reporter in Somalia by telephone that the couple was being taken to Xarardheere, a pirate stronghold on the Somali coast north of Mogadishu, [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/10/28/british-sailing-couple-seized-by-somali-pirates/feed/ 0 Kenya seizes Somalia “pirates” plane http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/09/07/kenya-seizes-somalia-pirates-plane/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/09/07/kenya-seizes-somalia-pirates-plane/#comments Mon, 07 Sep 2009 07:51:09 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=27083 GenevaLunch.com A plane carrying 37 people reportedly remains under tight surveillance at Nairobi’s international airport in Kenya since it arrived late Saturday 5 September from the Seychelles, carrying what Kenya is calling pirates, and the government is negotiating with the Seychelles and Somali governments over the fate of the plane and its occupants. Kenya’s Daily Nation [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/09/07/kenya-seizes-somalia-pirates-plane/feed/ 0 Somali pirates seize five ships in three days http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/04/06/somali-pirates-seize-five-ships-in-three-days/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/04/06/somali-pirates-seize-five-ships-in-three-days/#comments Mon, 06 Apr 2009 17:35:02 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=14773 GenevaLunch.com A British ship seized in the Gulf of Aden and a Taiwanese ship taken in the Seychelles are the two latest ships seized by Somali pirates, making the number five international cargo ships in just three days. In 2008 a total of 108 ships were taken, according to the BBC.

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