Humanitarian Aid: Doctors Without Borders

Doctors Without Borders: NAIROBI, Kenya - In announcing a pullout from Somalia after 22 years, Doctors Without Borders said Wednesday that armed groups are killing and abducting aid workers. And in a scathing indictment of Somalia's leadership, the aid group accused civilian leaders of condoning or even supporting the attacks. , according to Winnipeg Free Press. Doctors Without Borders, the winner of the 1999 Nobel Peace Prize and known by its French initials as MSF, said the pullout will cut off hundreds of thousands of Somali civilians from humanitarian aid. For example, in Mogadishu, MSF runs the only pediatric intensive care unit, while in Jowhar, women will have nowhere to go for emergency Caesarean sections. FILE---. In this file photograph dated Friday, July 19, 2013 Medicins Sans Frontieres, MSF or Doctors Without Borders, Montserrat Serra, bottom left, and Blanca Thiebaut, top right, arrive at the Madrid airport in Spain, The two Spanish aid workers were kidnapped by Somali militants from a Kenyan refugee camp in 2011, arrived back in Spain on Friday. The aid group Doctors Without Borders said Wednesday Aug. 14, 2013, it is pulling out of Somalia after 22-years of work there because of attacks on its staff. MSF, said that the decision is the result of extreme attacks on its staff in an environment where armed groups and civilian leaders increasingly support, tolerate, or condone the killing, assaulting, and abducting of humanitarian aid workers. AP Photo, MSF-FILE The pullout goes against the narrative of a Somalia emerging from decades of anarchy and violence amid military gains against Islamist insurgents, but it underscores the violence that persists. Some two dozen local journalists have been killed since the start of 2012. In June, a truck bomb and gunfire attack on the main U.N. compound in Mogadishu killed eight U.N. employees and five Somali civilians. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.