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    Somalia: Kismayo's only hospital closes as aid workers killed

    Services at the only hospital in Somalia's coastal city of Kismayo, 500km south of the capital Mogadishu, stopped on 29 January, a day after four people - including two foreign aid workers - were killed in a blast, local sources told IRIN.

    Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF-Holland) took over running the hospital in September 2007, after it had been abandoned by MSF-Belgium in 2001 due to insecurity.

    Thousands of demonstrators also took to Kismayo streets to protest at the killing of the two MSF-Holland staff, their driver and a local journalist.

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