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Shelling killed at least four civilians on Wednesday. "Stray bullets sometimes reach the tarmac road, civilians are emptying the whole area before they are stranded in the battle zone," said Halimo Adan, another witness. Mark Bowden, the UN... Full Article at Radio Netherlands Worldwide
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“However, I remain concerned that an escalation of hostilities or a prolonged operation could lead to displacement, further straining the capacity of settlements and host communities in Mogadishu or driving people away from the life-saving help they... Full Article at New Kerala
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UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia Mark Bowden speaks during a press conference in the Kenyan capital Nairobi on February 3, 2012. Head of the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) Jose Graziano da Silva announced that famine conditions have... View Photo »
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The town of Afgoye is the allied forces' focus, the town 28 kms southwest of Mogadishu, and is an Al Shabaab controlled district with over 400,000 internally displaced peoples (IDPs) living there. UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia... Full Article at AllAfrica.com
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More than 400,000 people, around one-third of all the displaced people in Somalia, were living in the Afgoye corridor at the start of the year, fleeing war or drought, according to the United Nations, which warned that civilians must be protected. Mark... Full Article at Lebanon Daily Star
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"I remain concerned that an escalation of hostilities or a prolonged operation could lead to displacement, further straining the capacity of settlements and host communities in Mogadishu or driving people away from the life-saving help they require,"... Full Article at International Business Times
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United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia Mark Bowden speaks to journalist on the famine in southern Somalia and humanitarian response to alleviate the crisis on September 5, 2011 in Nairobi. Famine spread to a sixth southern Somali region and... View Photo »
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"At this stage, we have no reports of significant movements of people from the corridor," the UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia, Mark Bowden, said in a statement. "However, I remain concerned that an escalation of hostilities or a... Full Article at AllAfrica.com
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Somalia: UN official calls for efforts to minimize civilian casualties in military operation
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At this stage, we have no reports of significant movements of people from the corridor, the UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia, Mark Bowden, said in a statement. However, I remain concerned that an escalation of hostilities or a... Full Article at United Nations
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"Humanitarian services provided by the international community will be available to them." The top U.N. humanitarian official for Somalia, Mark Bowden, called on African Union and Somali troops to minimize the impact of the fighting on civilians. ... Full Article at The State
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Mark Robert Bowden (born July 17, 1951) is an American writer. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, and a 1973 graduate of Loyola College in Maryland, Bowden was a staff writer for The Philadelphia Inquirer from 1979-2003, and has won numerous awards. He has written for Men's Journal, The Atlantic Monthly, Sports Illustrated, and Rolling Stone over the... Full Article At Wikipedia.org
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