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| Two aid workers seized in Somalia | Two aid workers seized in Somalia |
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| Two employees of Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) have been kidnapped by gunmen in central Somalia. | Two employees of Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) have been kidnapped by gunmen in central Somalia. |
| The BBC's Somali Service says the two men, who work for MSF-Belgium, were taken in their car with their Somali bodyguards in Hudur, Bakol region. | The BBC's Somali Service says the two men, who work for MSF-Belgium, were taken in their car with their Somali bodyguards in Hudur, Bakol region. |
| The BBC's Mohammed Moalimo in Mogadishu says the area is run by the radical Islamist al-Shabab insurgent group. | The BBC's Mohammed Moalimo in Mogadishu says the area is run by the radical Islamist al-Shabab insurgent group. |
| A spokesman for MSF confirmed one Belgian and one Dutch aid worker were missing, but did not give more details. | |
| "When we lose contact with teams we can't give much information because it can give problems afterwards, Michel Peremans said. | |
| "I hope you can understand that this is too delicate, too problematic at this stage." | |
| News agencies quoted witnesses and local clan elders as saying the two aid workers were kidnapped. | |
| Unnamed humanitarian sources also said the aid workers had been abducted. The pair had been carrying out a nutrition study in Rabdhure, Reuters news agency reported. | |
| The UN estimates 35 aid staff were killed last year and 26 abducted in the Horn of Africa nation, which has not had a functioning government since 1991. | The UN estimates 35 aid staff were killed last year and 26 abducted in the Horn of Africa nation, which has not had a functioning government since 1991. |
| The dead included three MSF workers - a Kenyan doctor, a French logistician, and a Somali driver - caught in a roadside bomb in the town of Kismayo in January 2008. | The dead included three MSF workers - a Kenyan doctor, a French logistician, and a Somali driver - caught in a roadside bomb in the town of Kismayo in January 2008. |
| Al-Shabab has sworn to topple Somalia's fragile federal transitional government, which is backed by African Union peacekeepers in Mogadishu. | Al-Shabab has sworn to topple Somalia's fragile federal transitional government, which is backed by African Union peacekeepers in Mogadishu. |