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UN Urges End to Sexual Violence in Conflict Areas

Mohamed Olad Hassan

   Forcibly displaced by drought and extremist violence in southwestern
   Somalia, Fadumo Mohamed Abdi thought she had found safety in the
   Puntland region's northeastern city of Bosaso.

   But one day in May 2019, while she and three other women were gathering
   firewood on the outskirts of their camp, they were accosted by four
   armed men, she said.

   "The other three women managed to escape, but unfortunately I could
   not. They raped me repeatedly and left me unconscious," Abdi told VOA's
   Somali service in a phone conversation Friday.

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