MSF pulls staff out of Somalia
01/02/2008 12:26  - (SA)  

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Mogadishu - The aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF - Doctors Without Borders) said on Friday it was pulling all its international staff out of Somalia after three of its staff were killed by a roadside bomb.

"As a mark of our respect and given the lack of clarity surrounding the circumstances of the attack, for the time being MSF has suspended all international staff presence," said the medical humanitarian organisation in a statement released in Nairobi.

"Eighty-seven international staff have been withdrawn from 14 projects across Somalia," it added.

A Kenyan doctor, a French logistics expert and a Somali driver with the aid group along with a local journalist were killed by a roadside bomb in southwest Somalia on Monday.

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