Over 200,000 people displaced in Somalia conflict: UNHCR

Geneva, July 8 (Xinhua) The number of people displaced by the escalating conflict in Mogadishu has reached 204,000, making it the biggest exodus from the troubled Somali capital since the Ethiopian intervention in 2007, the UN refugee agency has said. The eight-week-long offensive led by the Al-Shabab and Hisb-ul-Islam militia against government forces “is having a [...]

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