Renewed Fighting Hinders Aid Effort
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From Times Wire Reports
Somalia’s warring factions have resumed their battles--even though southern parts of the country are underwater--jeopardizing food aid to thousands of people rendered homeless by six weeks of flooding. “These crazy people still need to fight each other, aren’t even willing to stop until the crisis is over,” an aid worker said. Fighting has flared again in Baidoa, center of the region hardest-hit by floods that killed 2,000 people and drove 200,000 others from their homes.
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