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Puntland lifts ban on UN international workers

    NAIROBI

    The Puntland administration has withdrawn the expulsion of three UN international staff from the area issued in early December. This followed negotiations between UN officials in the region and the administration, an official from UNDP-Somalia confirmed to IRIN on Thursday. The ban had been lifted on one of the workers only a week after it was imposed. Letters from Puntland’s “interior minister” Hassan Abshir Farah had accused the three - Eddie Johns of UNDP/UNCTAD, Remmelt Hummeyn of UNDP and Said Al-Naimari of UNICEF - of “unsatisfactory services”.

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