{"id":425,"date":"2008-10-30T16:49:52","date_gmt":"2008-10-30T21:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.journals.law.harvard.edu\/ilj\/digest\/?p=425"},"modified":"2010-08-09T15:02:55","modified_gmt":"2010-08-09T19:02:55","slug":"attacks-on-un-office-in-somalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/ilj\/2008\/10\/attacks-on-un-office-in-somalia\/","title":{"rendered":"Attacks on UN office in Somalia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned the attacks in Northern Somalia on October 29, 2008. These attacks included a suicide car bombing at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) compound in Hargeisa which killed two UN staff and injured six others. Mr. Ban&#8217;s spokesperson states the Secretary-General &#8220;stresses the neutrality of the United Nations as well as humanitarian personnel, and urges all parties to support and facilitate the delivery of assistance to the Somali population.&#8221; Other explosions in the Hergaisa area and in Putland did not involve UN premises.<\/p>\n<p>Somalia has not had a functioning government since 1991.\u00a0 Despite the signing of a UN-brokered peace deal to end the fighting between the Transnational Federal Government (TFG) and the rebel Alliance for the Re-liberation of Somalia (ARS), recent months have been filled with violence<\/p>\n<p>The UN assists peace efforts in this area through the UN Political office for Somalia (UNPOS), which is lead by the Secretary-General&#8217;s Special Representative, Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah. A Deputy Special Representative, Charles Petrie, was appointed to assist these efforts.<\/p>\n<p>For further information, please click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/apps\/news\/story.asp?NewsID=28749&amp;Cr=Somali&amp;Cr1\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned the attacks in Northern Somalia on October 29, 2008. 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