Mogadishu’s clean-up puts thousands of displaced at risk

Headline Title:  Mogadishu’s clean-up puts thousands of displaced at risk 13 September 2013 Over two decades of violence, drought and famine, hundreds of thousands of people have arrived in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, where many are living in makeshift shelters. Since open warfare has decreased, and a central government has been installed, they probably thought that life would improve.But it hasn’t. In recent months, government forces and other armed groups have been driving internally displaced people (IDPs) out of their improvised settlements, at times violently, without giving…

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