As US drone launched cruise missiles once again rain down on ordinary Somali’s, the Somali pirates carrying out most of the piracy in the Horn of Africa remain immune from attack.
To this day not one Somali pirate has been killed on the ground in Somalia by the international naval flotillas in the Indian Ocean after receiving the ransoms they extract for the ships and crews they have captured.

The Somalia Semi-autonomous state of Puntland has said yesterday that it will no longer recognize Mogadishu as the capital of Somalia. Puntland’s Minister for Justice Abdi Hassan Jimale, said that henceforth, Puntland as a state of Somalia does not pay allegiance to Mogadishu.
Mr. Abdi Hassan Jimale said that the relationship that exists between the TFG and the Puntland government does not favour the TFG accord that states Somalia constitution will be drafted in Puntland.

Puntland security officers yesterday killed 13 Al-Shabab militias and wounded thirty two others in fighting in Bossasso town. The militia group members were killed after they attacked an army post near Bosasso, the commercial capital.