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100,000 Somalis fled homes since Jan.: UNHCR
 [Al Arabiya Latest] More than 100,000 people have been forced to flee their homes across Somalia since the start of the year amid "relentless and indiscriminate" fighting, the U.N. refugee agency said Friday.The office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) warned that more people could pour into an overcrowded refugee center in neighboring Kenya's Dadaab camp which is now already hosting 270,000 refugees. "UNHCR is extremely worried about the worsening situation for the civilian population in Somalia which is, once again, exposed to relentless and indiscriminate fighting in Mogadishu and elsewhere in the country," said Andrej Mahecic, the agency's spokesman. Perhaps they could get the Pakistanis and the Mighty Uruguayans to send in a peace-keeping force ... Posted by: Fred 2010-03-13 |
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