U.N. local aid head detained by officers
At least 50 Somali intelligence officers stormed a U.N. compound in Mogadishu, the Somali capital, and seized the World Food Program’s local chief of operations at gunpoint, prompting the agency to stop aid distribution.
A government officer who spoke on condition of anonymity said the arrest order came from the head of the national security service.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon strongly condemned the arrest as a flagrant violation of U.N. immunity.
A relative said the seized operations chief had quarreled with government officers.
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