Mogadishu: Doctors Without Borders

Doctors Without Borders: What MSFs pullout means for Somalia, according to The Star. 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 and 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. 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 t of 2012. In June, a truck bomb and gunfire attack on the main UN compound in Mogadishu killed eight UN employees and five Somali civilians. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.