Somalia: Doctors Without Borders Pulls Out
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/02/world/africa/02briefs-somalia.html
February 2, 2008
World Briefing | Africa
Somalia: Doctors Without Borders Pulls Out
By AP [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] [NGOs responding by leaving] [*******]
The French medical charity Doctors Without Borders said it had withdrawn its 87 foreign employees from Somalia after three of its workers — a Kenyan surgeon, a French logistics expert and a Somali driver — were killed this week [****]in a land mine explosion in the south that it termed “probably premeditated.”
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/02/world/africa/02briefs-somalia.html
February 2, 2008
World Briefing | Africa
Somalia: Doctors Without Borders Pulls Out
By AP [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] [NGOs responding by leaving] [*******]
The French medical charity Doctors Without Borders said it had withdrawn its 87 foreign employees from Somalia after three of its workers — a Kenyan surgeon, a French logistics expert and a Somali driver — were killed this week [****]in a land mine explosion in the south that it termed “probably premeditated.”
Copyright 2008 The New York Times Company