Gunmen on Monday abducted three foreigners and a Somali working for the UN in southern Somalia, the latest in a string of kidnappings in the nation.
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/ 11 December 2006
Still severely malnourished from a searing drought that struck East Africa last year, thousands of children in the impoverished, lawless nation of Somalia now bear the brunt of devastating floods that have hit the region. Already, the worst floods in 50 years, the crocodiles they have unleashed and waterborne disease have killed about 120 people.