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UN calls on Saudi Arabia to stop deporting Somalis

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The United Nations refugee agency called on Saudi Arabia on Friday to halt expulsions of Somalis to Mogadishu, rebuking the oil-rich kingdom for deporting 2,000 in the past two months to the war-torn capital.

  

"Given the deadly violence in Mogadishu, UNHCR is urging the Saudi authorities to refrain from future deportations on humanitarian grounds," Melissa Fleming, spokeswoman of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) told a news briefing. (Reuters)

 

 

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