Somalia: Aid Workers Killed in Blast
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/29/world/africa/29briefs-somalia.html
January 29, 2008
World Briefing | Africa
Somalia: Aid Workers Killed in Blast
By REUTERS [Somalia] [northern Africa; horn] [historic caliphate] [islamists and jihadis] [versus the transitional government that has been supported by West] [Somalia’s permanent state of anarchy] [jihadis use to their advantage as they may move in and act as a government] [Ethiopia-Eritrea animosities overlay Somalia’s domestic dynamic] [US has set up Africa Command in nearby Djubouti: task force horn of africa] [followup from late December] [anarchy writ large in Somalia] [brigands and crimes of opportunity as much as anything else] [*******]
A roadside bomb killed two Somalis and two foreign aid workers working for the Dutch arm of the aid group Doctors Without Borders near the southern Somali port of Kismayu, witnesses said. A Somali driver, a Kenyan doctor and a French logistics officer were killed instantly by the blast, while a Somali journalist nearby died from shrapnel wounds, a nurse with the organization in Kismayu said. Ibrahim Khalif Shanfool, the city’s police chief, said two men were arrested after the blast.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/29/world/africa/29briefs-somalia.html
January 29, 2008
World Briefing | Africa
Somalia: Aid Workers Killed in Blast
By REUTERS [Somalia] [northern Africa; horn] [historic caliphate] [islamists and jihadis] [versus the transitional government that has been supported by West] [Somalia’s permanent state of anarchy] [jihadis use to their advantage as they may move in and act as a government] [Ethiopia-Eritrea animosities overlay Somalia’s domestic dynamic] [US has set up Africa Command in nearby Djubouti: task force horn of africa] [followup from late December] [anarchy writ large in Somalia] [brigands and crimes of opportunity as much as anything else] [*******]
A roadside bomb killed two Somalis and two foreign aid workers working for the Dutch arm of the aid group Doctors Without Borders near the southern Somali port of Kismayu, witnesses said. A Somali driver, a Kenyan doctor and a French logistics officer were killed instantly by the blast, while a Somali journalist nearby died from shrapnel wounds, a nurse with the organization in Kismayu said. Ibrahim Khalif Shanfool, the city’s police chief, said two men were arrested after the blast.
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