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Anadolu Agency
October 30, 2016
Also confirming the rescue to Kenya's Star newspaper was Andrew Mwangura, a negotiator between pirates and ship owners and head of the Seafarers Assistance Program, who said, "It [the rescue] was a well-coordinated operation where they managed to rescue her. Shots were fired during the raid, butÃâà...
Fast Company
June 22, 2011
In an interview with Abdullahi Jamaa of Egyptian web publication onislam.net, Andrew Mwangura of the East African Seafarers Assistance Program detailed the methods used by the pirates: The most important thing for Somali pirates is getting relevant information regarding merchant vessels that they wishÃâà...
The Cutting Edge
February 8, 2010
Over $60 million was last year's ransom money paid out to pirate groups off the Somali coast, according to a regional anti-piracy watchdog, the Seafarers' Assistance Program. Their report mentioned 47 vessels and nearly 300 crew members captured by pirates during the same period. Recently a GreekÃâà...
CBS News
April 25, 2009
An official from the German Foreign Ministry could not immediately confirm the ship's capture. Andrew Mwangura of the Mombasa, Kenya-based East African Seafarers' Assistance Program, a group that monitors pirate activity off the African coast, said the ship has 17 crew members but could not give theirÃâà...
New York Times
January 9, 2009
Andrew Mwangura of the East African Seafarers Assistance program was quoted by Reuters as saying: “The last batch of gunmen have disembarked from the Sirius Star. She is now steaming out to safe waters.” The Sirius Star was seized in November off the coast of Somalia, in seas where pirates haveÃâà...
China Internet Information Center|
November 17, 2008
Andrew Mwangura, the East African Coordinator of the Seafarers Assistance Program, said the oil tanker is the largest ship pirates have hijacked along the east Africa coast. "It seems the vessel was hijacked on Saturday because the ship is approaching anchorage off the port of Eyl in Somalia. For it toÃâà...
Christian Science Monitor
August 26, 2008
Andrew Mwangura, of the Seafarers' Assistance Program, who monitors piracy from the Kenyan port of Mombasa, says cash raised from ransoms is being used to pay for weapons and salaries to keep war raging. "The pirates are earning millions of dollars. A lot of that is invested in businesses in the UnitedÃâà...
Marine Log
July 22, 2008
AFP quotes Andrew Mwangura of the Kenyan chapter of the Seafarers Assistance Program as saying the ship was hijacked on Sunday near Calula, in Somalia's northern region of Puntland, said. The agency quotes Puntland presidential advisor Bile Mohamoud Qabowsade as saying "Thirty eightÃâà...
CNN
June 6, 2007
The pirates "want a ransom and have said they'll kill another crew member if the ship owner doesn't pay," Andrew Mwangura, director of the Kenyan-based East African Seafarers Assistance Program, told Reuters. Authorities found out about the killing when the pirates allowed a captive to call home,Ãâà...
