Filipinos banned from Somali waters

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Updated April 22, 2009 21:10:23

The Philippines president, Gloria Arroyo, has ordered a ban on the deployment of Filipino seafarers on the ships that pass through the Gulf of Aden due to the increased attacks in the region off Somalia.

At the moment, almost half of the nearly 300 hostages held by Somali pirates are Filipinos. But the International Seafarers Action Center in Manila strongly opposes the ban.

Presenter: Lily Yan
Speaker: Joseph Entero, General Secretary of International Seafarers Action Center

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