Radars on Yemeni coasts to safeguard territorial waters from piracy

SANA'A, Nov. 22 (Saba) - Yemen has installed long-range radars to
monitor pirate boats in the event of approached the Yemeni
territorial waters, the GPC-run almotamar.net reported on Saturday.

The website quoted sources from Ministries of Interior and Defense
as saying that extra hundreds of soldiers have been deployed on
several gunboats outfitted with the modern fighting equipment to
repress piracy acts.

A source in the Defense Ministry revealed that the ministry is to
establish two marine military bases in governorates of Hadramout and
Hodeidah to reinforce the protection of the Yemeni territorial
waters.

These security procedures aim to combat terrorist and trafficking
acts as well as to guard against any acts may be launched by Somali
pirates against ships off the Yemeni coast, the source made clear.