Tuesday, January 06, 2009
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Mogadishu, Somalia (AP) - The U.N. food agency says gunmen in Somalia have killed one of its workers.
The World Food Program says three masked gunmen shot Ibrahim Hussein Duale, a 44-year-old Somali who was a school feeding monitor in the Gedo region of central Somalia. He was married with five children.
The U.N. now keeps its international staff members in Kenya to shield them from the risk of attacks and kidnappings. In 2008, at least 13 aid workers were killed in Somalia, which has not had an effective government since 1991.
Somalia has been beset by anarchy and an insurgency that has killed thousands of civilians and sent hundreds of thousands fleeing.
Source: AP, Jan 06, 2008