27 February - Somalia pirates fleeing with UN food vessel

The 'MV Rozen', a vessel hired by the UN food agency WFP to deliver food aid in Somalia, and its crew of 12 remain under control of a group of hijackers. Local sources say six of the hijackers were arrested while ashore, while police boats and a US warship monitor the fleeing vessel.

The 'MV Rozen' is still under control of the pirates, whose number is unclear. Puntland sources said that only four hijackers now remained on the vessel. But they are believed to be heavily armed and pose a threat to the crew of six Sri Lankans, including the captain, and six Kenyans. The crew is now held as hostages,

This fleeing of the UN food vessel is a show of the hard social condition in Somalia, where the anarchy remains in all the territory. Economically speaking, this kind of situations force the invertionists to keep their capital away form this country, because of the risk of be lost by anarchy.

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Socially, it is a very hard strike to the people in somalia, because many population depends of this kind of help to can survive, to they can not die by undernourishment.