Somalia Families Evicted

AP News - 684 days ago
Somalia Families Evicted
A man with his belongings pulls a cart after he was told to vacate his house in Mogadishu, Somalia,Thursday, March 25, 2010. Witnesses say hundreds of poor Somali families are being forcibly evicted from their homes near the airport. Police spokesman Abdulahi Hassan Barise says the plan will continue until threats to Mogadishu's main airport are eliminated. The targeted area was a former air force base and is about 100 yards (meters) from the airport's fence. Human rights groups say the families _ who squatted the idle land _ have no place to go. Somalia's fragile government is battling Islamists who usually fire mortars from residential areas. (AP Photo)