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IOL (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Nairobi - As two aid workers kidnapped from Ethiopia by Somali gunmen more than three months ago have been released, the United Nations reported that Somali gunmen had shot dead one of its workers outside Mogadishu.Peter Smerdon, a Nairobi-based spokesperson for the UN World Food Programme, says the Somali man was killed during food distribution about 10km outside the capital. It was...
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Relief Web (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
... a staff member, the second in three days, as they carried out food distribution at Daynile," said Peter Smerdon, WFP spokesman in Kenya. Resident Halima Ahmed told Reuters the attackers struck as the WFP team handed out supplies in the area, which is 10 kms (6 miles) north of the city. "They opened fire and hijacked the official's car after killing him. They also took guns from his...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday
Nairobi - Somali gunmen on Thursday shot and killed an aid worker with the UN World Food Programme (WFP), the second in three days, as he distributed aid near Mogadishu, the agency said. "Unknown gunmen shot and killed him during a food distribution at Daynile, 10 kilometres north-west of Mogadishu," Nairobi-based WFP spokesman Peter Smerdon told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa. "They then...
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kansascity.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
... in pain," he said, adding that the bandits loaded his body into a car and drove off.
Peter Smerdon, a Nairobi, Kenya-based spokesman for the U.N. World Food Program, said the body was later dumped.
"We condemn this shocking killings of two WFP staffers in three days," Smerdon said.
On Tuesday, three gunmen shot Ibrahim Hussein Duale, a 44-year-old Somali who...
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Miami Herald (Free subscription) | yesterday
... writhing in pain," he said, adding that the bandits loaded his body into a car and drove off. Peter Smerdon, a Nairobi, Kenya-based spokesman for the U.N. World Food Program, said the body was later dumped."We condemn this shocking killings of two WFP staffers in three days," Smerdon said.On Tuesday, three gunmen shot Ibrahim Hussein Duale, a 44-year-old Somali who was a school...
