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MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - The top U.N. aid official made a surprise visit to Somalia on Monday, a day new and deadly violence hit civilians caught in the crossfire as their government battles an Islamic insurgency.
John Holmes, the U.N. undersecretary general for humanitarian affairs, said aid agencies are struggling to operate because of violence in this Horn of Africa nation, which the U.N. says faces Africa's biggest humanitarian crisis.
"There is a (humanitarian) response but it is not adequate. It is terrible over here," Holmes told reporters after landing about 30 miles southwest of the capital, Mogadishu.
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