Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) closed all its medical projects in Somalia after 22 years of negotiating with countless authorities, armed groups and civilian leaders to be able to work there. But these same authorities have tolerated, or even participated in two recent events that triggered MSF's decision to withdraw from the country: the assassination of two MSF staff in Mogadishu at the end of 2011, and the kidnapping of another two who were freed this summer after 21 months of captivity.
