Authorities in Somalia are searching for three gunmen who on Sunday shot and killed the head of the United Nations' Development Programme and wounded one of his companions.
Osman Ali Ahmed was attacked on Sunday evening as he left a mosque near his home in the capital Mogadishu. He later died of his injuries in an African Union peacekeepers' hospital. Aid workers in Somalia have been increasingly targeted for Merger forms transatlantic union ...
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(Deutsche Welle)
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