From: Biniam Tekle (biniamt@dehai.org)
Date: Thu Jul 10 2008 - 10:15:06 EDT
*Medical aid group pulls out of Ethiopia's Fik region after government
harassment
* ** <http://www.pr-inside.com/mail696160.htm> *(c) AP*
2008-07-10 14:44:13 - **
GENEVA (AP) - The aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres says it is pulling out
of Ethiopia's Fik region because of persistent government harassment.
MSF representative Hugues Robert says staff members have been denied work
permits and detained without reason.
Robert says Thursday's decision means that the group's efforts to provide
medical care to ethnic Somali inhabitants in the Fik region are on hold
indefinitely. The group also is known as Doctors Without Borders.
Ethnic Somalis have been fighting for greater autonomy or independence since
Ethiopia seized the eastern region of Ogaden in a war with Somalia 30 years
ago.
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