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U.N. peacekeeper vote "fuels fire"-Somali Islamists
07 Dec 2006 06:08:28 GMT
Source: Reuters

MOGADISHU, Dec 7 (Reuters) - Somalia's powerful Islamist movement said U.N. endorsement of an African peacekeeping force in Somalia will "add fuel to the fire" in the Horn of Africa nation many fear is on the verge of all-out war. "The U.N. authorising new weapons is like adding fuel to the fire," Islamist spokesman Abdirahman Ali Mudey told Reuters. "We are disappointed that the U.N. passed this resolution. It is unfortunate to add more weapons while the weapons that caused havoc are still in Somalia."
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A woman displaced by flooding sits with her children outside a makeshift shelter in the flood-ravaged Tana River districts, about 500 km (311 miles) southeast of Nairobi, December 21, 2006. Aid agencies are struggling to assist more than half a million victims of floods, which have killed some 114 people across the east African nation, in a region hit by the worst floods in the last decades. Several hundred people are believed to have died and more than 1 million have been uprooted across Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia, and Rwanda.