Posted on 01/17/2026 1:32:56 PM PST by CFW
The State Department will officially terminate foreign assistance to Somalia after the African nation’s government demolished a warehouse containing 76 metric tons of food donated by America, a senior administration official told The Daily Wire.
On January 3, “at the direction of President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud (HSM) and the Federal Government of Somalia (FGS), authorities at Mogadishu Port demolished the World Food Programme (WFP) Emergency Response Warehouse with no prior notification or coordination with international donor countries, including the United States,” a diplomatic cable from the United States Embassy in Somalia dated January 6 said.
The move “likely resulted in the destruction of these emergency food supplies,” and was approved by Somali’s president over the objections of the World Food Programme, the cable said. The apparent cause, it said, was corruption: the Mogadishu Port is managed by a Turkish company that wanted to expand, and Somalia’s Minister of Ports “acts as [Turkey’s] primary agent in Somalia.” Turkey has increasingly plated a large role in Somalia industries, “often operating under corrupt contracts that uniformly favor Turkish interests,” the cable said.
An additional 1,650 metric tons of additional commodities were scheduled to arrive in early January, and had to be stored in an alternative warehouse. The World Food Programe, a project of the United Nations, said it will notify Somalia that the “demolition constitutes a breach of UN diplomatic protocols,” the cable said.
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The State Department announced on January 7 that it has “paused all ongoing U.S. assistance programs which benefit the Somali Federal Government. Any resumption of assistance will be dependent upon the Somali Federal Government taking accountability for its unacceptable actions.” But the administration official, speaking on condition of anonymity, went further, saying that all aid will be permanently and officially ended by May.
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Satan to a mere criminal, seems our standing has improved.
The move “likely resulted in the destruction of these emergency food supplies,” and was approved by Somali’s president over the objections of the World Food Programme,
Exactly.
Most likely.
He said that “food donations from the US, EU, UAE, Qatar, and China are systematically sold in Magadishu markets after staged photo-ops,” in which starving people are paid $5 to pay for photos with the food, before it is taken away from them.
By diverting aid for 8,000 to 12,000 families, the clain generates half a million dollars a month for itself,
The people in turd world s holes live in s holes because they LIKE living in s holes. You’re right. Not a single penny to these dumps that hate us.
The president of Somalia (the new warlord) most definitely sold the supplies to his own tribe.
Aid will be ended by May??? Why 4 more months of enabling fraud or theft? Guess it doesn’t really matter because some Biden judge will shortly declare we have to keep shoveling our money to them forever and ever.
The move “likely resulted in the destruction of these emergency food supplies,” and was approved by Somali’s president over the objections of the World Food Programme, the cable said. The apparent cause, it said, was corruption: the Mogadishu Port is managed by a Turkish company that wanted to expand, and Somalia’s Minister of Ports “acts as [Turkey’s] primary agent in Somalia.” Turkey has increasingly plated a large role in Somalia industries, “often operating under corrupt contracts that uniformly favor Turkish interests,” the cable said.
The embassy in Somalia requested that the Secretary of State “strongly consider pausing, canceling, or postponing U.S. assistance to [Somalia] until it returns or compensates the United States and other international donors for the stolen food assistance items,” the cable said.
or he wants to shut it down so he can get out of that cesspool
Until restored by the next Democrat administration
Magician David Copperfield: I made the Statue of Liberty and a Lear Jet disappear so I'm still on top.
charity begins at home..
Cut off the funding, sounds like a reasonable plan.
There is nothing too small for them to steal and no corruption is out of bounds.
It is the same in every other despotic nation, including our own. I have seen stacks of containers of medical supplies including vaccines, rot on the docks in Port Harcourt, Nigeria and other places, cooking in the tropical sun waiting for the right price to clear customs. They will let the stuff become worthless if they can’t get their cut and that game persists all along the path to the end users if it ever reaches the end user without being stolen, lost, destroyed or expropriated.
We need to stop sending assistance.
Note the full stop.
Cut off all foreign funding and give the cash back to the American taxpayer!
Anyone here remember a skit from SNL back in the 90’s depicting Clinton eating hamburgers from one source to another about how Somali war lords distribute US food aid?
Sounds like a struggle between Somali and Turkish corruption interests. Any aid will be stolen by one or the other.
I suppose the US could open their own warehouse, but I’d use it to store airport luggage instead —- much more money in that, I hear.
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