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...Island Lodge (from $350 a night per couple). All are beautiful converted houses, but the lodge has huge rooms, Goan four-posters, the best pool and best sunset view, and its rates include air transfers from the mainland, three spectacular meals a day and use of a dhow to sail to a nearby sandbank for snorkeling and lobster lunch under a sunshade on the beach. See cincoportas.com and iboisland.com for more...
...impossible to interdict everyone coming to Kenya from Somalia," Hogendoorn says. "The border is just a line in the sand - not to mention, they could sail a dhow down from Somalia to a Kenyan village on the coast. It would be extremely difficult for Kenya to defend against a terrorist attack on a soft target...
...British raid only underscored the difficulty facing international military efforts to police the shipping lanes of East Africa. The vessel attacked by the marines was nothing more than a rickety old fishing dhow, and the eight men arrested are likely to be quickly replaced by hundreds of other pirates - not to mention the thousands desperate to join their ranks and get a piece of the lucrative action. The pirates have thrived in a situation of negligible government authority on land, where the Somali state barely exists. And they are further emboldened by the jurisdictional difficulty of figuring out where...
...about the lucrative market for hashish in Egypt, and De Monfreid resolves to head for Greece - where the "bringer of dreams" was cultivated and packaged for sale - then grease some palms and have 1,300 lbs. (600 kg) shipped to Djibouti, whence he'd ferry the hashish in his dhow up the Red Sea to Suez. Thus was a drug smuggler born...
...August, a large dhow originating in Iran and carrying arms, medical supplies and food arrived at a Mogadishu seaport. Included in the shipment were 80 man-portable surface-to-air missiles and launchers. The U.N. also charges that "at the time of writing of this report, there were two Iranians in Dhusa Mareb engaged on matters linked to the exploration of uranium in exchange for arms to the ICU." In separate letters written to the U.N., Syria and Iran denied having any involvement...