Somalia: People Are Hungry for Peace, says UNICEF

5 July 2002
African Church Information Service (Nairobi)

Nairobi — After touring Somalia early last week, the United Nation Children Fund (UNICEF) goodwill ambassador, Ms Tetsuko Kuroyanagi from Japan said the local people were hungry for peace.

She witnessed scars of the suffering from internal conflict spanning more than a decade, extreme poverty and physical destruction. Ms. Kuroyanagi, said the conflict should be stopped at all cost. This is her 20th mission to conflict hit countries of the world since 1994, of which 12 missions have been to Africa.

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