UN Team To Explore Ways Of Supporting Security In Violence-Wracked Somalia

A U.N. team will head to the Horn of Africa next week to explore ways of supporting the African Union (A.U.) peacekeeping force in Somalia where violence sees an upsurge, U.N. said on its website Friday. The team includes the U.N. deputy special representative for Somalia, Charles Petrie, representatives from U.N. Political Office for Somalia as well as departments of peacekeeping, field support and political affairs at the UN Headquarters in New York. Talks will be held in Nairobi and Addis Ababa to discuss ways of supporting the A.U. mission as well as Somalia's transitional security forces and police. [...] Thursday the World Food Programme reported one staff member was shot dead by gunmen near the capital Mogadishu, the second killing of its worker in the country within three days.