It essentially runs up from the Gulf of Aden, or runs down to Lake Malawi.

List of vessels attacked by pirates off the Somali coast in the Indian Ocean and the Gulf of Aden

China has actively taken part in the anti piracy and escort operations conducted by the UN in the Gulf of Aden and waters off Somalia.

Accordingly, the arms trading networks were forced to exercise greater care in the movement of arms shipments from Yemen to Somalia across the Gulf of Aden.

Firstly, arms available at BAM, during the early part of the mandate period, were affected by the surveillance activities of the foreign naval task forces operating in the Gulf of Aden.

One of the groups has a network of people that operate primarily in a geographical area that includes Western Europe, the Arabian peninsula, the Gulf of Aden and the Horn of Africa.

As a result, Colonel Barre Aden Shire Hirale (Kismaayo warlord and (dissident) Minister of Reconstruction and Resettlement in TFG) sent his militia to support Habsade and located it at Baadheerre, south west of Baidoa.

A regional project in the member countries of the Regional Organization for the Conservation of the Environment of the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden (PERSGA) to promote regional strategies to reduce the unintentional production of POPs.

Using military aircraft (Antonov 26) to transport arms shipments from Aden, Yemen, to Bossaso, Puntland, in direct State support for TFG and President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, the Yemeni Air Force delivered arms on eight occasions between 2 and 10 July 2005.

Al Qaeda in Yemen has been targeted since the USS Cole was bombed while in the port of Aden in 2000. Missile strikes by US drones last December in Abein and Shabwa killed a number of Al Qaeda members, as well as civilians.

The other local criminal group has a network of people who operate primarily in a geographic area that includes the southern part of the Arabian peninsula, the Gulf of Aden, Somalia ( Puntland the seaport of Bossaaso and the Bakaaraha arms market in Mogadishu).

Taking advantage of the traditional coastal trade between the waters of the western Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Aden, the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf, arms embargo violators have now combined this trade with arms shipment and, in some cases, outright arms trafficking by sea.

It has also been reported to the Monitoring Group that some of the criminal groups using dhows to transport weapons from Yemen to Somalia reacted, for example, by dividing a single shipment of arms into smaller quantities and loading them on different dhows for transport across the Gulf of Aden to Puntland.

In case No. T 306 01a three of the applicants Abdirisak Aden, Abdulaziz Ali and Ahmed Yusuf were Swedish citizens of Somali origin, while the fourth applicant, Al Barakaat International Foundation, was a non profit making organization registered under Swedish law, which, inter alia, assisted in financial transactions between residents of Sweden and Somalia.

Meanwhile, in Yemen, the possibility of adequate central authority is slipping away as the country confronts several seemingly intractable problems from internal divisions and separatist movements to Al Qaeda s franchise in the Arabian Peninsula and a failing economy. The south (Aden) and east (Hadramaut) are both on a trajectory toward independence, dragging Yemen toward another secession struggle nearly 25 years after the country s fragile unification.

Discussions centred on three topics (a) the seizure by Yemeni authorities of a contraband arms shipment that was being transported by a dhow across the Gulf of Aden and destined for Somalia, and arms smuggling networks, in general, (b) the Government's strategies and plans for dealing with illegal arms and (c) round trip flights by Government military aircraft from Yemen to Somalia during July 2005.