Associated Press reporters Rodney Muhumuza in Kampala, Uganda, and Jason Straziuso in Mombasa, Kenya, contributed to this report.
"The MV Action was released by pirates, " said Andrew Mwangura, head of the Seafarers Assistance Program in Mombasa, Kenya.
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We watched lions eat zebras in the Serengeti, slept in the Islamic quarter of Mombasa, Kenya, and in tents in Ethiopian hills.
The attack sparked a fire aboard the Captain Maslov, which was heading from Colombo, Sri Lanka, to Mombasa, Kenya, the ministry said.
He also faced charges before a Kenyan court for planning terror attacks in Mombasa, Kenya's second-largest city and a popular tourist destination.
What is clear is that if the Faina ever reaches Mombasa, Kenya will have to take delivery, very publicly, of the T-72s.
The Alabama was en route to Mombasa, Kenya, with a cargo of food aid when it was hijacked about 350 miles off the Somalia coast.
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The pirates raced toward the ship, the Captain Maslov, in a high-speed boat late Thursday afternoon and attacked as it headed from Colombo, Sri Lanka, to Mombasa, Kenya, the ministry said.
But, in its mid 19th-century heyday, it was a terminus of the caravan route from Lake Tanganyika, a major export point for slaves and ivory, and one of the largest ports between the city of Bagamoyo and Mombasa, Kenya.
The port of Dar es Salaam failed to pinch business from Kenya's port, Mombasa, when Kenya was in turmoil a year ago.
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Mombasa, on Kenya's Indian Ocean coast, is a popular destination for foreign visitors and the hotel was frequented mainly by Israeli tourists.
Some 50 years later, the promise of that day still pulses through this country, on the bustling streets of Nairobi, from -- up to Mount Kenya, from the coastal shores of Mombasa to the plains of the Maasai Mara.
Police pointed the finger at Kenya's coastal separatist group, the Mombasa Republican Council (MRC), but it denied responsibility, saying the group only sought change through peaceful means.
Since then, Kenya has experienced a bottleneck at the port of Mombasa for shipments into the country while they are evaluated against existing GM-related rules.
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