Good news in the fight against maritime terrorism: the US and Canada have announced separate plans to protect ships that have been the target of Somali pirates. Canada is sending a warship to protect UN food shipments to Somalia (via CNN):

“Canada is stepping up to the plate by tasking Ville de Quebec with the role of escorting World Food Programme ships to ensure their safe arrival at designated ports,” Canada’s Defense Minister Peter MacKay said in a government news release.

HMCS Ville de Quebec is a 134-meter-long frigate armed with torpedos, surface-to-air missiles and other weapons, and carries a twin-engined “Sea King,” an anti-submarine warfare helicopter.

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Sad but not surprising news from Somalia: as the kidnapping and murder of foreign aid workers continues to escalate, the poor and hungry people they went to help now face a growing humanitarian crisis. Via Africa News Search:| MORE ›