Johannesburg/Nairobi (dpa) – Aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) will move some of its staff out of Somalia after two of its members were killed at the agency's compound in Mogadishu, according to a statement released on Friday. The two killed on Thursday were Philippe Havet, a 53-year-old from Belgium, and Andrias Karel Keiluhu, 44, from Indonesia. Havet was called an “experienced emergency coordinator” and had worked with MSF – known in English as Doctors Without Borders – since 2000 in various hot spots, including the Democratic Republic of Congo, Lebanon and Sierra Leone. Keiluhu, known to his friends as “Kace,” was a physician who had worked with the agency since 1998 in Asia and Africa. “MSF will be relocating some staff from Somalia for security reasons, but remains committed to continuing its humanitarian work in Mogadishu and elsewhere in Somalia,” the group said in a statement, adding that it was “shocked and deeply saddened.” According to police sources who spoke with dpa, a security officer had opened fire on MSF inside the agency's compound. The reasons were still unclear. MSF has worked in Somalia since 1991, when the country sank into a still ongoing civil war. BM ShortURL: http://goo.gl/1Twm3 Tags: Aid Workers, Doctors Without Borders, MSF, Somalia Section: East Africa, Health, Human Rights, Latest News
