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UN assures continued support despite Kosovo

[Nigeria] Mosque in the southern city of Onitsha burned during Christian-on-Muslim violence - reprisal attacks for anti-Christian violence in the north over the caricatures of Prophet Muhammad. [Date picture taken: February 2006] Isidore Achor/IRIN
Mosquée incendiée au cours des violences interconfessionnelles dans le sud d'Onitsha
Toepfer, who travelled to Berbera from talks with the UN Secretary-General in Geneva, assured Somaliland that the Balkans conflict would not divert resources needed for other parts of the world. He said Habitat had much to do, along with the people of Somaliland, for stability and reconstruction in the post-conflict period.

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