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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - A warlord in southern Somalia has taken over the offices of UNICEF in the town where Somalia's transitional government is based, a senior U.N. official said Monday.
The head of Somalia's southern Middle Shabelle region, Mohamed Dheere, walked into the U.N. children agency's offices Sunday in Jowhar, 55 miles northeast of Mogadishu and told staff to hand over the keys, said Christian Balslev-Olesen, the head of UNICEF'S Somalia office. The office is based in neighboring Kenya because the Horn of Africa nation is insecure.
"We have not been given any communication on why this took place," Balslev-Olesen told The Associated Press. "I hope soon this issue will be sorted."
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