MOMBASA, Kenya | The European Union will launch its first naval combat mission Sunday, deploying a British frigate to escort vital U.N. food aid to starving Somalis.
The warship will accompany the small cargo vessel Semlow from Mombasa, Kenya, to the Somali capital Mogadishu, through waters teeming with pirates.
The deployment, code-named Operation Atalanta, marks growing world commitment to combating piracy, and to the 16-year-old Somali aid effort.
The British frigate will be part of six warships and three maritime reconnaissance aircraft that will replace a NATO naval force that has been patrolling the region and escorting cargo ships carrying relief aid to Somalia since the end of October, the Associated Press reported.
Read the rest in The Washington Times.
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