Oil Tanker Hijacking Stokes Fear of Links Between Houthi Rebels and Somali Pirates
An oil tanker off the coast of Yemen was hijacked Saturday and diverted toward Somalia’s waters, according to Yemen’s Coast Guard, the latest in a spate of ship abductions around the Horn of Africa in recent weeks. An official in Somalia’s semiautonomous Puntland region, along with experts briefed by Yemeni and Somali authorities, said the…
