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WFP worker killed in north Kenya, U.N. says
09 May 2008 12:14:48 GMT
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NAIROBI, May 9 (Reuters) - Unidentified gunmen killed a senior United Nations aid worker in remote northwestern Kenya, the U.N. World Food Programme said on Friday.

Silence Chirara, a 37-year-old Zimbabwean, was the WFP logistics coordinator for southern Sudan. He was ambushed late on Wednesday as he drove near a U.N. camp in Lokichog


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