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Home > Somalia: Thousands displaced as fighting flares in Mogadishu

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Wednesday, October 12, 2011 - 03:00
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Refugees & forced migration [2]
Issue Number: 
552 [3]
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Hundreds of families are on the move in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, after three days of fighting between government troops supported by African Union peacekeeping troops (AMISOM) and Islamist insurgents, local sources told IRIN. 'We don’t have exact numbers but hundreds of families are on the move, particularly from Heliwa, Suuqa Xolaha, Karan [north Mogadishu] and Dayniile [northwest],' Abdullahi Shirwa, head of Somalia's National Disaster Management Agency (NDMA), told IRIN.

Category: 
Human Security [4]
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Country: 
Somalia [6]

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