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.
Thousands of displaced Somalis rely on food aid from WFP
clipped from news.bbc.co.uk
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