Doctors Without Borders says it plans to return to Somalia
Jan 27, 2017 | 1:30 AM
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JOHANNESBURG — Doctors Without Borders said Friday it plans to return to Somalia, more than three years after closing its operations in the turbulent country amid “extreme attacks” on its staff.
The medical aid charity known by the French acronym MSF said its return to the Horn of Africa country will be a cautious one.
The charity pulled out of Somalia in August 2013 after 22 years of operations there. It cited an environment where armed groups and civilian leaders increasingly allowed or condoned killings, assaults and abductions of humanitarian workers.
MSF last year started exploring a possible return, sending a delegation to Somalia in May to meet with the prime minister and others.
