Foreign staff pull out of Somali town

Tuesday 18 January 1994 00:02 GMT

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All foreign staff with five aid agencies urgently evacuated the southern Somali town of Buale after a spate of bandit attacks, Reuter reports from Nairobi. Fourteen staff of the office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and four non-governmental organisations were pulled out of the town, 120 miles north-west of the port of Kismayu, on Sunday. Attacks by bandits began immediately after UN troops withdrew at the end of December and were not replaced.

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