Contact has now been made with the pirates who hijacked the Sirius Star, a super-tanker laden with 2 million barrels of crude oil.
The vessel has reached the coast of Somalia and British and American warships are waiting to see what the ransom demands will be.
Christian Fraser reports from the Kenyan port of Mombasa.
One-Minute World News 
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