A French intelligence agent, Denis Allex, was killed on Saturday when an operation to free him from Al Shabaab militants holding him hostage in Somalia failed.
Pirate attacks in Somalia have decreased in the last two years, due to the use of private security guards on ships and better-coordinated naval patrols/
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HARGEISA, Somalia — The Kulan Art Café is a bright airy place with murals and framed paintings by local artists on the wall, potted plants, fresh coffee and ice cream, homemade cakes and a menu featuring Western staples like pizza and hamburgers. In Hargeisa, the capital of the breakaway state of Somaliland, there is nothing else like it. Nor for that matter is there anything like it anywhere else in Somalia, a place which, as it gradually emerges from decades of conflict is attracting increasing numbers of diaspora Somalis home.
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