(Adds detail) MOGADISHU, May 23 (Reuters) - Somali pirates have released a Jordanian-flagged cargo ship hijacked last week off the lawless coast of the Horn of Africa nation, a shipping agent said on Friday. The "Victoria", owned by a United Arab Emirates company, was carrying 4,200 tonnes of sugar in humanitarian aid sent from Denmark to the Somali capital Mogadishu. "The ship has been released. All the pirates have left the ship, the crew is safe and healthy. The ship is sailing to Mogadishu to discharge its cargo," the ship's local agent Mohamed Ahmed Roble told Reuters. After 17 years of civil conflict without effective central government, pirates have turned Somalia's waters into some of the most dangerous in the world. The Victoria's crew of around 12 people included Pakistanis, Indians, Bangladeshis and Tanzanians. (Reporting by Ibrahim Mohamed; Writing by Jack Kimball; Editing by Andrew Cawthorne) (nairobi.newsroom@reuters.com; +254 20 2224 717)
African immigrants displaced by xenophobic violence wait in line to be registered at the Cato Manor police station in Durban May 23, 2008. Anti-immigrant violence has spread to South Africa's second ...
