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| Africa Horn |
| Somali gunmen kidnap foreign aid workers |
| 2009-07-19 |
| [Al Arabiya Latest] Somali gunmen kidnapped three foreign aid workers Saturday in a raid on a Kenyan border town as Somali hijackers released a German ship and its crew after three month in exchange for a ransom, officials said. The three were snatched from their office in Mandera, in northeast Kenya. "The authorities in Mandera (in Kenya) told us that those aid workers had been kidnapped. We're now going to run after them," Sheikh Osman, a senior official in the neighboring district in Somalia, said. The nationalities of the aid workers and the organization for which they were working were not immediately clear. "We haven't seen them yet, but they have crossed the border," an elder in Bulohawo, Adan Wardhere told AFP, saying the kidnappers had seriously injured a security guard during the abduction. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 the best foreign aid for a long term satble Somalia is short term: HE and Cluster bombs |
| Posted by: Frank G 2009-07-19 11:29 |