Posted on 08/15/2011 12:16:57 PM PDT by traumer
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) -- Thousands of sacks of food aid meant for Somalia's famine victims have been stolen and are being sold at markets in the same neighborhoods where skeletal children in filthy refugee camps can't find enough to eat, an Associated Press investigation has found.
The U.N.'s World Food Program for the first time acknowledged it has been investigating food theft in Somalia for two months. The WFP said that the "scale and intensity" of the famine crisis does not allow for a suspension of assistance, saying that doing so would lead to "many unnecessary deaths."
And the aid is not even safe once it has been distributed to families huddled in the makeshift camps popping up around the capital. Families at the large, government-run Badbado camp, where several aid groups have been distributing food, said they were often forced to hand back aid after journalists had taken photos of them with it.
Ali Said Nur said he received two sacks of maize twice, but each time was forced to give one to the camp leader.
"You don't have a choice. You have to simply give without an argument to be able to stay here," he said.
The U.N. says more than 3.2 million Somalis - nearly half the population - need food aid after a severe drought that has been complicated by Somalia's long-running war. More than 450,000 Somalis live in famine zones controlled by al-Qaida-linked militants, where aid is difficult to deliver. The U.S. says 29,000 Somali children under the age of 5 already have died.
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This needs to be investigated just long enough to determine that it is in Somalia.
That’s just the way it is going to be, there. If you really want to distribute food, you are going to have to figure out a way to distribute it through the local clan-based social system. Fighting that is like trying to bail out the ocean with a spoon.
Well here’s a huge suprise. Do any of the aid shipments ever reach their intended destination? I am under the impression that most of the provisions are intercepted by nefarious groups and used for their own gain. And really—what is the UN going to do about it?
SURPRISE SURPRISE....... NOT!!!
I don’t think it is one little bit different in Haiti, either.
Ya know, there’s something to be said for Colonialism.
The Somali hell hole (no longer deserving of even being called a country), like Haiti and a few more places, is a lost cause.
Ah, Sam, we miss you!
How did I know that was going to happen?
Its for sure the culture and wonder how much got sidelined at DNC and nobama buddies.
This is what typically happens. Just another way the libtards prop up dictators to help advance their cause...
Read a 1960’s book, “The Ugly American”. This sort of diversion is WHY these programs exist.
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