The EU's flagship naval operation risks losing permission to pursue pirates in Somalia's waters due to local politics.
The Somalian federal government, in December, agreed to extend a UN mandate for the EU operation, called Atalanta, for just three months.
And its future intentions were "rather ambivalent" and "to be doubted", according to an internal EU foreign-service paper, dated 5 January and seen by EUobserver.
Somalia's new "posture towards the international presenc...
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