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Waterquake in the South-East Asia: WFP aid to Somalia

Mogadishu, Somalia - It dispatched an airplane to Hafun which has been left remote for years due to the pitched battles among militiamen

On Sunday, World Food Programme (WFP) sent an aircraft with food supplies to a zone where operating by air means has been impossible for about ten years because of the never-ending fighting which were underway here: this is the Hafun peninsula, in Somalia. Until now, aid arrived only by road or by ground facing militiamen roadblocks. Yesterday a ship sailed from Mombasa in Kenya, with 1,300 tons of...

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Rome, Italy, 01/12/2005 12:22
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