Gulf of Aden

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• In the eighteenth century, Harar was a strategic trading center situated between the Gulf of Aden and the interior of present-day Ethiopia.

  Academic text (2009)

• The Gulf of Aden is located between Yemen and Somalia, forming a key shipping route.

• In 2008, Somali pirates attacked more than one hundred vessels in the Gulf of Aden and western Indian Ocean.

  Academic text (2009)

• The number of piracy attacks in the Gulf of Aden and off the coast of Somalia doubled from 2007 to 2008.

  Academic text (2009)

• Time goes by in lotus dreams that have no memory of a past or reckoning of a future till we wake suddenly and find anchor cast in the Gulf of Aden.

  Blog text (22)

• Twenty thousand ships transit the Gulf of Aden annually, and in 2007 about 6,500 tankers, carrying 12 percent of the world's daily oil supply, used the route.

  Academic text (2009)

• The model that may be most promising for the Gulf of Aden is one that could be borrowed from the other side of the African continent—the Gulf of Guinea.

  Academic text (2009)

• Although the crew was able to fight off the intruders, the pirates seized the ship's skipper, Richard Phillips, and spent the next five days holding him hostage in a lifeboat bobbing in the Gulf of Aden until the U.S. Navy

  Academic text (2009)

• To take only one example, according to The New York Times, in September 2008, "a Danish warship captured 10 men suspected of being pirates cruising around the Gulf of Aden with rocket-propelled grenades and a long ladder."

  Academic text (2009)

• The states in the Horn of Africa—with support from the global community—can and should take the lead in fighting maritime piracy in the Gulf of Aden and western Indian Ocean.

  Academic text (2009)

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