Dinsor
Dinsor (also spelled Diinsoor or Dhiinsoor ) is a small town with an estimated 16,000-20,000 inhabitants in southern Somalia , east of the town of Baardheere in the Bay region .
Dinsor is next to a road that leads from Baardheere to Baidoa . It serves as a marketplace for the region, for example herds of camels are rounded up for sale to Mogadishu in Dinsor. The MSF operate in Dinsor a health center, which is the only medical care for about 650,000 people in the area.
In December 2006, fighting broke out in Dinsor between the Somali interim government and the Union of Islamic Courts .
Individual evidence
- ↑ bevölkerungsstatistik.de (2007 calculation)
- ↑ a b Reaching out - Médecins Sans Frontières in Somalia ( Memento of the original dated September 12, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (August 2007)
- ↑ BBC News: 'Heavy fighting' in Somali town
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Coordinates: 2 ° 30 ' N , 43 ° 0' E