Tuesday, March 16, 2010

20100311 UN agency acts on Somali food-aid claims

clipped from news.bbc.co.uk
The UN's food agency has blacklisted three contractors named in a UN report which alleged that food aid in Somalia was being diverted.

The UN document says up to half of the food aid in Somalia is diverted to a web of corrupt contractors, distributors, transporters and armed groups.

It blames the problem on the food distribution system in the war-torn country, where transporters have to navigate roadblocks operated by various militias and bandits. Charges that food aid was being diverted first surfaced in 2009.

Somali people queue at a World Food Program camp in Mogadishu, file image
Thousands of displaced Somalis rely on food aid from WFP
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