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               S O M A L I A  N E W S  U P D A T E

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No 2                August 28, 1992.               ISSN 1103-1999

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1. BBC world service reports that general Aydiid has rejected the secretary-
general's proposal to deploy an additional 3000 security personnel in 
Somalia. 

2. Aid workers I have spoken to have mentioned that while the famine is severe
all over Somalia (with the exception of the Northeast and Northwest) the 
probably most affected part of the population are the inter-river clans. In
several of the camps surrounding Mogadishu there is a preponderance of
Af-may speakers. In Baydhabo one of the feeding centres is inside an old
ware-house. Outside of it hundreds of people are waiting to get in and
when the doors open and the guards carry away the corpses of those that have
died inside, the people waiting press on to get inside. In such
situations the guards use sticks to "keep the waiting people in order".